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Holographic Dark Energy and the Universe Expansion Acceleration

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Submitted 24 Feb 2006 · 20 references

Pith's verdict: The advertised holographic bound in Eq. (25) is not derived by the energy conditions; the paper's real content is a consistent but parameter-input model that deserves a fixing revision rather than acceptance as-is.

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CitationJ. G. Pereira, J. P. Beltran Almeida. "Holographic Dark Energy and the Universe Expansion Acceleration." arXiv:gr-qc/0602103 (2006). https://pith.science/paper/ALF7FKWB
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The paper

The paper claims

Saturating a holographic bound on dark energy fixes the matter/dark-energy ratio and can drive cosmic acceleration with no dark-energy equation of state.

The reading

This letter argues that one holographic constraint can replace the missing equation of state in a universe with a time-dependent cosmological term. If the dark-energy density saturates the bound $\varepsilon_\Lambda = b\kappa^{-2}H^2$ at the Hubble radius, the Bianchi-consistent field equations force matter and dark energy into a constant ratio $\varepsilon_m/\varepsilon_\Lambda=(1-b)/b$, which directly addresses the coincidence problem. The same model changes the causal and energy bounds on the matter equation of state, permitting acceleration for $1/3

What carries the argument

The load-bearing device is the saturation of the holographic inequality $\varepsilon_\Lambda \le b\kappa^{-2}L^{-2}$ with the inverse Hubble radius, $L=cH^{-1}$. This turns the inequality into the algebraic relation $\varepsilon_\Lambda = b\kappa^{-2}H^2$, supplying the extra equation that closes the otherwise underdetermined system of Friedmann equations. From it follow the scaling solutions and the fixed ratio $\varepsilon_m=(1-b)/b\,\varepsilon_\Lambda$, and the same parameter $b$ enters the energy-condition bound $\omega \le b/(1-b)$ and the acceleration bound $\omega < b/(1-b)-1/[3(1-b)]$. The paper treats dark energy as geometric de Sitter-like curved-spacetime energy rather than a fluid, so no $\omega_\Lambda$ is introduced.

Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper's central claim is that the holographic principle, applied to a decaying cosmological term, is enough to tie the main parameters of late-time cosmology together. Working with flat FRW equations and a total energy-momentum tensor $\Theta^{\mu\nu}=T^{\mu\nu}+\Lambda^{\mu\nu}$ that is covariantly conserved, the authors take $\varepsilon_\Lambda = b\kappa^{-2}H^2$ (with $\kappa^2=8\pi G/(3c^4)$) as an equality, $0<b<1$, and $L=cH^{-1}$ as the cutoff. The resulting exact solutions satisfy $\varepsilon_m=(1-b)/b\,\varepsilon_\Lambda$, so the two densities keep a fixed ratio while both scale as $a^{-3(1+\omega)(1-b)}$. Imposing the null, weak, and causal energy conditions on $\Theta^{\mu\nu}$ yields $\omega\ge -1$ and $\omega \le b/(1-b)$; requiring $\ddot{a}>0$ then gives $\omega < b/(1-b) - 1/[3(1-b)]$. Thus, for a band of allowed $b$ and $\omega$, the model produces both the observed order-of-magnitude density ratio and an accelerated expansion without any dark-energy equation of state, dark energy being a purely geometric entity.

Load-bearing premise

The whole chain depends on one premise: that the dark-energy density actually sits at the holographic bound with the Hubble radius as cutoff, so that if the bound is not tight, the fixed density ratio and the derived parameter bounds do not follow.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the model is correct, the coincidence problem is recast as one choice of the parameter $b$: the ratio $\varepsilon_m/\varepsilon_\Lambda=(1-b)/b$ is fixed for all epochs, so matter and dark energy do not drift apart as in the standard picture.
  • Acceleration does not require a negative-pressure dark-energy fluid: for $1/3<b<1$ the matter equation-of-state parameter $\omega$ can be positive while $\ddot{a}>0$.
  • The holographic parameter modifies causality: the usual bound $\omega<1$ is replaced by $\omega\le b/(1-b)$, so a decaying geometric dark energy changes which matter equations of state are physically allowed.
  • Because the combined matter-plus-geometry tensor is covariantly conserved, dark energy can convert into matter and back; the model can describe an initially empty, all-dark-energy cone-spacetime as a possible big-bang seed.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A sharp test follows immediately: equation (8) predicts $\Omega_m/\Omega_\Lambda=(1-b)/b$ at every redshift, whereas the standard constant-cosmological-term picture predicts this ratio growing as $(1+z)^3$; high-redshift measurements of the two densities can distinguish the models.
  • Because exact saturation is doing all the work, a natural extension would let $b$ vary with time or epoch; the density ratio would then drift, and the coincidence would no longer be automatic. Tracking such a drift in future surveys would test exact saturation.
  • If observations ever establish an evolving dark-energy equation of state $w_\Lambda(z)\neq -1$, the geometric interpretation advanced here would be hard to maintain, since the model's success depends on never having to introduce $\omega_\Lambda$ at all.
Original abstract

By incorporating the holographic principle in a time-depending Lambda-term cosmology, new physical bounds on the arbitrary parameters of the model can be obtained. Considering then the dark energy as a purely geometric entity, for which no equation of state has to be introduced, it is shown that the resulting range of allowed values for the parameters may explain both the coincidence problem and the universe accelerated expansion, without resorting to any kind of additional structures.

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The abstract, sentence by sentence

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By incorporating the holographic principle in a time-depending Lambda-term cosmology, new physical bounds on the arbitrary parameters of the model can be obtained. Considering then the dark energy as a purely geometric entity, for which no equation of state has to be introduced, it is shown that the resulting range of allowed values for the parameters may explain both the coincidence problem and the universe accelerated expansion, without resorting to any kind of additional structures.

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s0 By incorporating the holographic principle in a time-depending Lambda-term cosmology, new physical bounds on the arbitrary parameters of the model can be obtained. contribution 0.61 0.81 0.18 asserted 0.84
s1 Considering then the dark energy as a purely geometric entity, for which no equation of state has to be introduced, it is shown that the resulting range of allowed values for the parameters may explain both the coincidence problem and the universe accelerated expansion, without resorting to any kind of additional structures. result 0.63 0.89 0.77 hedged possibility 0.83

What kind of paper the classifier reports this is: theoretical result 1.00 · evidence from proof or derivation 0.96.

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