DENSITY PERTURBATIONS AND THE CHAPLYGIN GAS
One approach in modern cosmology consists in supposing that dark matter and dark energy are different manifestations of a single 'quartessential' fluid. Following such idea, this work presents a summary of some studies of the evolution of density perturbations in a flat cosmological model with a modified Chaplygin gas acting as a single component. Our goal is to obtain properties of the model which can be used to distinguish it from another cosmological models which have the same solutions for the general evolution of the scale factor of the universe, even without the construction of the power spectrum. Both our analytical and numerical results clearly indicate as one interesting feature of the model the presence of peaks in the evolution of the density constrast.