Gravitational potential evolution in Unified Dark Matter Scalar Field Cosmologies: an analytical approach

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We investigate the time evolution of the gravitational potential Phi for a special class of non-adiabatic Unified Dark matter Models described by scalar field lagrangians.

• These models predict the same background evolution as in the LambdaCDM and possess a non-vanishing speed of sound.
• We provide a very accurate approximation of Phi, valid after the recombination epoch, in the form of a Bessel function of the first kind.
• This approximation may be useful for a future deeper analysis of Unified Dark Matter scalar field models.