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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/06/010
Keywords
cosmological perturbation theory; dark energy theory
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Cosmological background observations cannot fix the dark energy equation of state, which is related to a degeneracy in the definition of the dark sector components. tilere we show that this degeneracy can be broken at perturbation level by imposing two observational properties on dark matter. First, dark matter is defined as the clustering component we observe in large scale structures. This definition is meaningful only if dark energy is unperturbed, which is achieved if we additionally assume, as a second condition, that dark matter is cold, i.e. non-relativistic. As a consequence, dark energy models with equation-of-state parameter -1 <= omega < 0 are reduced to two observationally distinguishable classes with omega = -1, equally competitive when tested against observations. The first comprises the ACDM model with constant dark energy density. The second consists of interacting models with an energy flux from dark energy to dark matter.
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