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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• FABRIS, JÚLIO C.
• PIATTELLA, OLIVER F.
• RODRIGUES, DAVI C.
• BATISTA, CARLOS E. M.
• DAOUDA, MAHAMADOU H.

Titel

RASTALL COSMOLOGY

Ist Teil von

• International journal of modern physics. Conference series, 2012, Vol.18, p.67-76

Ort / Verlag

World Scientific Publishing Company

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We review the difficulties of the generalized Chaplygin gas model to fit observational data, due to the tension between background and perturbative tests. We argue that such issues may be circumvented by means of a self-interacting scalar field representation of the model. However, this proposal seems to be successful only if the self-interacting scalar field has a non-canonical form. The latter can be implemented in Rastall's theory of gravity, which is based on a modification of the usual matter conservation law. We show that, besides its application to the generalized Chaplygin gas model, other cosmological models based on Rastall's theory have many interesting and unexpected new features.