2007/12/31 by Changjun Gao, Fengquan Wu, Xuelei Chen +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.79.043511
published as Phys.Rev.D79:043511,2009 · 7 pages, 8 figures. The discussions on structure formation and k-essence reconstruction are added. To appear in Phys. Rev. D
arxiv created 2008/12/25 · openalex publication_date 2009/02/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Motivated by the holographic principle, it has been suggested that the dark energy density may be inversely proportional to the area of the event horizon of the Universe. However, such a model would have a causality problem. In this paper, we propose to replace the future event horizon area with the inverse of the Ricci scalar curvature. We show that this model does not only avoid the causality problem and is phenomenologically viable, but also naturally solves the coincidence problem of dark energy. Our analysis of the evolution of density perturbations show that the matter power spectra and cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy is only slightly affected by such modification.