Quintom cosmology and modified gravity after DESI 2024
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics2024-09-02v2General Relativity and Quantum CosmologyHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Theory
We reconstruct the cosmological background evolution under the scenario of dynamical dark energy through the Gaussian process approach, using the latest Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) combined with other observations. Our results reveal that the reconstructed dark-energy equation-of-state (EoS) parameter w(z) exhibits the so-called quintom-B behavior, crossing −1 from phantom to quintessence regime as the universe expands. We investigate under what situation this type of evolution could be achieved from the perspectives of field theories and modified gravity. In particular, we reconstruct the corresponding actions for f(R), f(T), and f(Q) gravity, respectively. We explicitly show that, certain modified gravity can exhibit the quintom dynamics and fit the recent DESI data efficiently, and for all cases the quadratic deviation from the ΛCDM scenario is mildly favored.
@article{arxiv.2404.19437,
title = {Quintom cosmology and modified gravity after DESI 2024},
author = {Yuhang Yang and Xin Ren and Qingqing Wang and Zhiyu Lu and Dongdong Zhang and Yi-Fu Cai and Emmanuel N. Saridakis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.19437},
year = {2024}
}