Interactions and Instabilities in Cosmology's Dark Sector Export

@article{citeulike:5951562, abstract = {I consider couplings between the dark energy and dark matter sectors. I describe how the existence of an adiabatic regime, in which the dark energy field instantaneously tracks the minimum of its effective potential, opens the door for a catastrophic instability. This {\it adiabatic instability} tightly constrains a wide class of interacting dark sector models. This talk was presented at, and will appear in the proceedings of the DPF-2009 conference.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Trodden, Mark}, citeulike-article-id = {5951562}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2695}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.2695}, day = {14}, eprint = {0910.2695}, keywords = {dark\_energy, dark\_matter}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2009-10-16 15:20:22}, priority = {2}, title = {Interactions and Instabilities in Cosmology's Dark Sector}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2695}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5951562 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5951562 N2 - I consider couplings between the dark energy and dark matter sectors. I describe how the existence of an adiabatic regime, in which the dark energy field instantaneously tracks the minimum of its effective potential, opens the door for a catastrophic instability. This {\it adiabatic instability} tightly constrains a wide class of interacting dark sector models. This talk was presented at, and will appear in the proceedings of the DPF-2009 conference. TI - Interactions and Instabilities in Cosmology's Dark Sector KW - dark_energy KW - dark_matter AU - Trodden, Mark PY - 2009/Oct/14/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2695 ER -