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Horava-Lifshitz Dark Energy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-05-05 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We formulate Horava-Lifshitz cosmology with an additional scalar field that leads to an effective dark energy sector. We find that, due to the inherited features from the gravitational background, Horava-Lifshitz dark energy naturally presents very interesting behaviors, possessing a varying equation-of-state parameter, exhibiting phantom behavior and allowing for a realization of the phantom divide crossing. In addition, Horava-Lifshitz dark energy guarantees for a bounce at small scale factors and it may trigger the turnaround at large scale factors, leading naturally to cyclic cosmology.

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@article{arxiv.0905.3532,
  title  = {Horava-Lifshitz Dark Energy},
  author = {Emmanuel N. Saridakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.3532},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

17 pages, no figures, version published at EJPC

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