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Interacting Quintessence in a New Scalar-Torsion Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-12-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In the framework of teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, we study a gravity theory where a scalar field beyond its minimal coupling, is also coupled with the vector torsion through a non-minimal derivative coupling. After a suitable choice of auxiliary variables that allows us to perform the phase-space analysis of the model we obtain the critical points and their stability. While there is no scaling attractor in non-interacting scenario, by considering an interaction between dark energy and dark matter, we find scaling attractors in which the fractional densities of dark energy and matter are non-vanishing constants over there. The universe can evolve to these scaling attractors regardless of initial conditions and the cosmological coincidence problem could be alleviated without fine-tunings.

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@article{arxiv.1604.03080,
  title  = {Interacting Quintessence in a New Scalar-Torsion Gravity},
  author = {Behnaz Fazlpour},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.03080},
  year   = {2016}
}

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15 pages, 6 figures. New references have been added