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Phantom Divide Crossing with General Non-minimal Kinetic Coupling

General Physics 2015-06-05 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We propose a model of dark energy consists of a single scalar field with a general non-minimal kinetic couplings to itself and to the curvature. We study the cosmological dynamics of the equation of state in this setup. The coupling terms have the form ξ1Rf(ϕ)μϕμϕ\xi_{1} R f(\phi)\partial_{\mu}\phi\partial^{\mu}\phi and ξ2Rμνf(ϕ)μϕνϕ\xi_{2} R_{\mu\nu}f(\phi)\partial^{\mu}\phi\partial^{\nu}\phi where ξ1\xi_{1} and ξ2\xi_{2} are coupling parameters and their dimensions depend on the type of function f(ϕ)f(\phi). We obtain the conditions required for phantom divide crossing and show numerically that a cosmological model with general non-minimal derivative coupling to the scalar and Ricci curvatures can realize such a crossing.

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@article{arxiv.1206.3299,
  title  = {Phantom Divide Crossing with General Non-minimal Kinetic Coupling},
  author = {A. Banijamali and B. Fazlpour},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.3299},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Gen. Rel. Grav. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1105.4967, arXiv:1201.1627, and with arXiv:astro-ph/0610092 by other authors

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