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An interacting scalar field and the recent cosmic acceleration

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

In this paper it is shown that the Brans - Dicke scalar field itself can serve the purpose of providing an early deceleration and a late time acceleration of the universe without any need of quintessence field if one considers an interaction, i.e, transfer of energy between the dark matter and the Brans - Dicke scalar field.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0507115,
  title  = {An interacting scalar field and the recent cosmic acceleration},
  author = {Sudipta Das and Narayan Banerjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0507115},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures