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$p$-form quintessence: exploring dark energy of $p-$forms coupled to a scalar field

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-02-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider a model based on pp-form kinetic Lagrangians in the context of dark energy. The Lagrangian of the model is built with kinetic terms of the field strength for each pp-form coupled to a scalar field ϕ\phi through a kinetic function. We assume that this scalar field is responsible for the present accelerated expansion of the Universe. Since we are interested in cosmological applications, we specialize the analysis to a 4-dimensional case, using an anisotropic space-time. By studying the dynamical equations, we investigate the evolution of the dark energy density parameter, the effective equation of state and the shear induced by the anisotropic configuration.

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@article{arxiv.1910.10499,
  title  = {$p$-form quintessence: exploring dark energy of $p-$forms coupled to a scalar field},
  author = {Alejandro Guarnizo and Juan P. Beltrán Almeida and César A. Valenzuela-Toledo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.10499},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG15) held at "La Sapienza" University in Rome, Italy, July 1-7, 2018; based on the talk given at the parallel session DE1 "Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe". Complementary to arXiv:1810.05301 and arXiv:1902.05846