The effect of thermal radiation on singularities in the dark universe

Abstract

Cosmological models with an inhomogeneous viscous dark fluid, coupled with dark matter in the Friedmann–Robertson–Walker (FRW) flat universe, are considered. The influence of thermal effects caused by Hawking radiation on the visible horizon is studied, in connection with the classified Types I and III singularities which are known to occur within a finite amount of time. Allowance of thermal effects implies that a transition to a Type II singularity can take place, in a finite time. We take into account a bulk viscosity of the dark fluid, observing the equation of state in the case of radiation, and find that there is a qualitative change in the singular universe of Type I: it may pass into a singularity of Type III, or it may avoid the singularity at all.