Ghost dark matter

We revisit ghost dark matter, the possibility that ghost condensation may serve as an alternative to dark matter. In particular, we investigate the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) background evolution and the large-scale structure (LSS) in the Lambda GDM universe, i.e. a late-time universe dominated by a cosmological constant and ghost dark matter. The FRW background of the Lambda GDM universe is indistinguishable from that of the standard Lambda CDM universe if M greater than or similar to 1 eV, where M is the scale of spontaneous Lorentz breaking. From the LSS we find a stronger bound: M greater than or similar to 10 eV. For smaller M, ghost dark matter would have non-negligible sound speed after the matter-radiation equality, and thus the matter power spectrum would significantly differ from observation. These bounds are compatible with the phenomenological upper bound M less than or similar to 100 GeV known in the literature.