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Phantom Dark Ghost in Einstein-Cartan Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-05-09 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A class of dynamical dark energy models is constructed through an extended version of fermion fields corresponding to phantom dark ghost spinors, which are spin one half with mass dimension one. We find that if these spinors interact with torsion fields in a homogeneous and isotropic universe, then it does not imply any future dark energy singularity or any abrupt event, though the fermion has a negative kinetic energy. In fact, the equation of state of this dark energy model will asymptotically approach the value w=1w=-1 from above without crossing the phantom divide and inducing therefore a de Sitter state. Consequently, we expect the model to be stable because no real phantom fields will be created. At late time, the torsion fields will vanish as the corresponding phantom dark ghost spinors dilute. As would be expected, intuitively, this result is unaffected by the presence of cold dark matter although the proof is not as straightforward as in general relativity.

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@article{arxiv.1507.07571,
  title  = {Phantom Dark Ghost in Einstein-Cartan Gravity},
  author = {Yu-Chiao Chang and Mariam Bouhmadi-López and Pisin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.07571},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures. A heavily revised version without changes on the physical content. Version to appear in EPJC

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