A study on the bouncing behavior of modified Chaplygin gas in presence of bulk viscosity and its consequences in the modified gravity framework

Abstract

The present paper reports a study on the bouncing behavior of the viscous modified Chaplygin gas (MCG) in Einstein as well as modified gravity framework. For a bouncing scale factor proposed by Cai et al., Class. Quantum Grav. 28 (2011) 215011, we have studied the cosmology of MCG in presence of bulk viscosity. In Einstein gravity framework, we have studied the equation of state parameter and it has been found to cross [Formula: see text] indicating the end of the early accelerated expansion and it has also been observed that for flat FRW universe the presence of bulk viscosity induces the crossing of phantom boundary. Role of the model parameters of the MCG has also been investigated before and after the bounce. A Hubble flow dynamics has been carried out and, it was revealed that MCG is capable of realizing inflationary phase as well as an exit from inflation. A [Formula: see text] gravitational paradigm has also been considered, where the MCG density has been reconstructed in presence of bulk viscosity. Role of [Formula: see text] of the bouncing scale factor, describing how fast the bounce takes place, has also been studied in this framework.