DARK ENERGY WITH POLYTROPIC EQUATION-OF-STATE

Abstract

Equation-of-state parameter plays a significant role for guessing the real nature of dark energy. Here polytropic equation-of-state p = ωρnis chosen for some of the kinematical Λ-models viz., [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and Λ ~ ρ. Although in dust cases (ω = 0) closed form solutions show no dependency on the polytropic index n, but in non-dust situations some new possibilities are opened up including phantom energy with supernegative (ω < -1) equation-of-state parameter.