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Rikpratik Sengupta

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arXiv2022

Lorentzian wormholes supported by tachyon matter

Wormholes with Ellis geometry have been successfully constructed using tachyon matter \cite{Das}. However, for such a wormhole, it is obtained that the redshift function is necessarily a constant, and also the wormhole is plagued with an imaginary tachyon potential and a constant field if the solutions are obtained in the absence of a cosmological constant term. So, a physically plausible wormhole solution is possible only in the presence of a $Λ$ term. In this paper, we try to construct a wormhole from tachyon matter with three $other$ geometries \textit{different} from the Ellis geometry and see whether it is possible to construct them successfully, besides checking whether the restrictions of the Ellis wormhole can be overcome with these geometries. Among others, we obtain one very interesting result that for all three of these geometries \textit{different} from the Ellis, the $Λ$ term is no longer an essential ingredient in constructing physically plausible traversable wormholes and the tachyon matter, capable of providing explanations for the "\textbf{dark sector}" of the universe,is itself sufficient for this purpose.

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arXiv2022

Wormhole on the Brane with Ordinary Matter: The Broader View

In this paper we attempt to examine the possibility of construction of a traversable wormhole on the Randall-Sundrum braneworld with ordinary matter employing the Kuchowicz potential as one of the metric potentials. In this scenario, the wormhole shape function is obtained and studied, along with validity of Null Energy Condition (NEC) and the junction conditions at the surface of the wormhole are used to obtain a few of the model parameters. The investigation, besides giving an estimate for the bulk equation of state parameter, draws important constraints on the brane tension which is a novel attempt in this aspect and very interestingly the constraints imposed by a physically plausible traversable wormhole is in high confirmity with those drawn from more general space-times or space-time independent situations involved in fundamental physics. Also, we go on to claim that the possible existence of a wormhole may very well indicate that we live on a three-brane universe.

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arXiv2022

Gravastar under the framework of braneworld gravity II: effect of the Kuchowicz metric function

In recent years, a class of compact objects called gravastars have drawn immense interest as regular solutions to end state stellar collapse. Since the energy density involved in collapse process is expected to be high, it is a natural choice to study such compact objects in context of modified gravity theories which reduce to General Relativity (GR) in the low energy regime. We have already framed a model of gravastar in such a modified gravity framework involving extra dimensional Randall-Sundrum (RS) single brane gravity~[Phys. Rev. D \textbf{102}, 024037 (2020)] \cite{Sengupta1}. As a sequel in the present paper we substantially improve our previous model by choosing the Kuchowicz function as one of the metric potentials, which leads to many new interesting results and physical features from our analysis as discussed in this paper. Also, we provide essential additional stability checks on our gravastar model to investigate the possibility of any instability creeping in due to the higher dimensional framework. Our present improved gravastar model is found to clear all the stability checks successfully. Very interestingly, the static spherically symmetric matter distributions are found to accommodate both classes of solutions obeying and violating the modified energy conditions on the RS brane as we find in this work. We can conclude from our analysis that the Kuchowicz metric potential is very effective for describing regular solutions to compact objects at substantially high energies on the 3-brane.

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arXiv2022

Skyrme Fluid in Anisotropic Universe

Cosmological solutions are obtained in an anisotropic Kantowski-Sachs (KS) and Bianchi Type-I universes considering a cosmological constant with Skyrme fluid. Interestingly, the solutions obtained here in both the KS and Bianchi-I anisotropic universes are found isotropize at late time due to the presence of the Skyrme fluid even in the absence of $Λ$ term or any inflationary mechanism involving the inflaton field. A comparative study of both the anisotropic cosmological models are carried out here and found that Bianchi-I universe admits oscillatory solutions for a given matter configuration. We also note that the emergent universe model can be obtained with Skyrme fluid. The anisotropy, deceleration and jerk parameters have been studied along with the linear perturbative stability to explore efficacy of the model. Both the cosmological models are stable in the absence of cosmological constant besides their compatibility with observational data. Thus, we claim Skyrme fluid a possible source for isotropization of an anisotropic universe via accelerated expansion, which is capable of reproducing some observed features of the universe.

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arXiv2020

Bouncing Models in an Extended Gravity Theory

Some bouncing models are investigated in the framework of an extended theory of gravity. The extended gravity model is a simple extension of the General Relativity where an additional matter geometry coupling is introduced to account for the late time cosmic speed up phenomena. The dynamics of the models are discussed in the background of a flat FRW universe. Some viable models are reconstructed for specifically assumed bouncing scale factors. The behavior of the models are found to be decided mostly by the parameters of the respective models. The extended gravity based minimal matter-geometry coupling parameter has a role to remove the omega singularity occurring at the bouncing epoch. It is noted that the constructed models violate the energy conditions, however, in some cases this violation leads to the evolution of the models in phantom phase. The stability of the models are analyzed under linear homogeneous perturbations and it is found that, near the bounce, the models show instability but the perturbations decay out smoothly to provide stable models at late times.

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arXiv2020

Gravastar under the framework of Braneworld Gravity

Gravastars have been considered as a serious alternative to black holes in the past couple of decades. Stable models of gravastar have been constructed in many of the alternate gravity models besides standard General Relativity (GR). The Randall-Sundrum (RS) braneworld model has been a popular alternative to GR, specially in the cosmological and astrophysical context. Here we consider a gravastar model in RS brane gravity. The mathematical solutions in different regions have been obtained along with calculation of matching conditions. Various important physical parameters for the shell have been calculated and plotted to see their variation with radial distance. We also calculate and plot the surface redshift to check the stability of the gravastar within the purview of RS brane gravity.

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arXiv2019

Inflation in anisotropic brane universe using tachyon field

Cosmological solution to the gravitational field equations in the generalized Randall-Sundrum model for an anisotropic brane with Bianchi I geometry and perfect fluid as matter sources has been considered. The matter on the brane is described by a tachyonic field. The solution admits inflationary era and at a later epoch the anisotropy of the universe washes out. We obtain two classes of cosmological scenario, in the first case universe evolves from singularity and in the second case universe expands without singularity.

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arXiv2019

Generalized phenomenological models of dark energy

It was first observed at the end of the last century that the universe is presently accelerating. Ever since, there have been several attempts to explain this observation theoretically. There are two possible approaches. The more conventional one is to modify the matter part of the Einstein Field Equations and the second one is to modify the geometry part. We shall consider two phenomenological models based on the former, more conventional approach within the context of General Relativity. The phenomenological models in this paper consider a $Λ$ term as a function of $\frac{\ddot{a}}{a}$ and $ρ$ where $a$ and $ρ$ are the scale factor and matter-energy density respectively. Constraining the free parameters of the models with latest observational data gives satisfactory values of parameters as considered by us initially. Without any field-theoretic interpretation, we explain the recent observations with a dynamical cosmological constant.

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