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By combining data from seven cosmic microwave background experiments (including the latest WMAP results) with large scale structure data, the Hubble parameter measurement from the Hubble Space Telescope and luminosity measurements of Type…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessandro Melchiorri , Laura Mersini , Carolina J. Odman , Mark Trodden

Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), in combination with Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data and Type Ia Supernovae (SN) luminosity distances, suggests a dynamical evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 João Rebouças , Diogo H. F. de Souza , Kunhao Zhong , Vivian Miranda , Rogerio Rosenfeld

The phenomenon of the dark energy transition between the quintessence regime ($w > -1$) and the phantom regime ($w < -1$), also known as the cosmological constant boundary crossing, is analyzed in terms of the dark energy equation of state.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hrvoje Stefancic

We are experiencing a golden age of experimental cosmology, with exact and accurate observations being used to constrain various gravitational theories like never before. Alongside these advancements, energy conditions play a crucial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Y. Myrzakulov , O. Donmez , M. Koussour , S. Muminov , D. Ostemir , J. Rayimbaev

Recently, there has been considerable debate regarding potential evidence for the dynamical nature of dark energy (DE), particularly in light of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) measurements released by DESI survey. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-18 Mateus Scherer , Miguel A. Sabogal , Rafael C. Nunes , Antonio De Felice

We present a holographic dark-energy model in which the Newton constant $G_{N}$ scales in such a way as to render the vacuum energy density a true constant. Nevertheless, the model acts as a dynamical dark-energy model since the scaling of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Guberina , R. Horvat , H. Nikolic

We review the quantum Yang-Mills condensate (YMC) dark energy models. As the effective Yang-Mills Lagrangian is completely determined by the quantum field theory, there is no adjustable parameter in the model except the energy scale. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-04 W. Zhao , Y. Zhang , M. L. Tong

We explore the equation of state (EoS) for dark energy $w_{\mathrm{DE}}$ in modified gravitational theories to explain the current accelerated expansion of the universe. We explicitly demonstrate that the future crossings of the phantom…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Kazuharu Bamba

In this paper, we propose a general form of the equation of state (EoS) which is the function of the fractional dark energy density $\Omega_{d}$. At least, five related models, the cosmological constant model, the holographic dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Yi Zhang , Hui Li

We establish a new no-go theorem for cosmology: spatially flat ($k=0$) and open ($k=-1$) Friedmann--Robertson--Walker (FRW) non-static spacetimes cannot be simultaneously nonsingular, geodesically complete, and consistent with the averaged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-27 Nathan L. Burwig , Damien A. Easson

In this study, we explore the impact of various combinations of CMB-independent datasets, including the recent DESI BAO measurements, on the equation of state (EoS) of dark energy and other cosmological parameters within the framework of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Manisg Yadav , Archana Dixit , M. S. Barak , Anirudh Pradhan

One of the greatest challenges in cosmology today is to determine the nature of dark energy, the source of the observed present acceleration of the universe. High precision experiments are being developed to reduce the uncertainties in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Reuven Opher , Ana Pelinson

In today's scenario, going beyond Einstein's theory of gravity leads us to some more complete and modified gravity theories. One of them is the $f(R,T)$ gravity in which $ R $ is the Ricci scalar, and $ T $ is the trace of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-04 P. K. Sahoo , Sanjay Mandal , Simran Arora

Energy conditions are attempts to summarise the properties of realistic descriptions of matter via constraints on the energy-momentum tensor. This is, for example, useful when one wants to understand the types of spacetime geometry that can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Hidde Stoffels

We investigate in this paper the cosmological evolution of a dark energy model with two scalar fields where one of the scalar has canonical kinetic energy and another scalar has negative kinetic energy term. For such a system with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zong-Kuan Guo , Yun-Song Piao , Xinmin Zhang , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

A quantum field theory has finite zero-point energy if the sum over all boson modes $b$ of the $n$th power of the boson mass $ m_b^n $ equals the sum over all fermion modes $f$ of the $n$th power of the fermion mass $ m_f^n $ for $n= 0$, 2,…

General Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Kevin Cahill

The nature of dark matter remains one of the most fundamental and unresolved questions in modern cosmology. In most cosmological models, dark matter is typically modeled as pressureless dust with an equation of state (EoS) parameter $w_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 Tian-Nuo Li , Yi-Min Zhang , Yan-Hong Yao , Peng-Ju Wu , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The recent observations support that our universe is flat and expanding with acceleration. A quintessence model with a general relation between the quintessence potential and the quintessence kinetic energy was proposed to explain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yungui Gong

Several independent cosmological data, collected within the last twenty years, revealed the accelerated expansion rate of the Universe, usually assumed to be driven by the so called dark energy, which, according to recent estimates,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-16 Marek Demianski , Elisabeta Lusso , Maurizio Paolillo , Ester Piedipalumbo , Guido Risaliti

In this paper we show that a \emph{one-to-one} correspondence exists between any dark energy model and an equivalent (from a cosmological point of view, in the absence of perturbations) quartessence model in which dark matter and dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. M. G. Beca , P. P. Avelino