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We investigate the emergent laws of gravity when Dark Energy and the de Sitter space-time are modelled as a critical Bose-Einstein condensate of a large number of soft gravitons $N_{\rm G}$. We argue that this scenario requires the presence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-07 Mariano Cadoni , Roberto Casadio , Andrea Giusti , Matteo Tuveri

The discovery ten years ago that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating put in place the last major building block of the present cosmological model, in which the Universe is composed of 4% baryons, 20% dark matter, and 76% dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-27 Joshua Frieman , Michael Turner , Dragan Huterer

A simple speed-up cosmology model is proposed to account for the dark energy puzzle. We condense contributions from dark energy and curvature term into one effective parameter in order to reduce parameter degeneracies and to find any…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-10 Xin-He Meng , Meng Su , Zheng Wang

We propose the Locally Pumped Dark Energy (LPDE) mechanism in which cosmic acceleration is triggered by the emergence of non-linear dark matter structure. In an effective-field-theory description, coarse-graining over the density contrast…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Carlo R. Contaldi , Mauro Pieroni

We elaborate on the proposal that the observed acceleration of the Universe is the result of the backreaction of cosmological perturbations, rather than the effect of a negative-pressure dark-energy fluid or a modification of general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 E. W. Kolb , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

We review the evidence for recently accelerating cosmological expansion or "dark energy", either a negative pressure constituent in General Relativity (Dark Energy) or modified gravity (Dark Gravity), without any Dark Energy constituent. If…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sidney Bludman

The traditional "explanation" for the observed acceleration of the universe is the existence of a positive cosmological constant. However, this can hardly be a truly convincing explanation, as an expanding universe is not expected to have a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Joan Sola

We obtain the analogues of the Friedman equations in an emergent gravity scenario in the presence of dark energy. The background metric is taken to be Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW). We show that if $\dot\phi ^{2}$ is the dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-24 Debashis Gangopadhyay , Goutam Manna

Following the idea of the induced matter theory, for a non-vacuum five-dimensional version of general relativity, we propose a model in which the induced terms emerging from the extra dimension in our four-dimensional space-time, supposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-27 Amir F. Bahrehbakhsh

In a previous paper (Ref. [1]) the presence of dark energy in our universe was explained as the fingerprint of a comprehensive, much older and expanding multiverse with positive spatial curvature, whose space-time is spanned by this energy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-06 Rebhan Eckhard

Explanations of the late-time cosmic acceleration within the framework of general relativity are plagued by difficulties. General relativistic models are mostly based on a dark energy field with fine-tuned, unnatural properties. There is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 Ruth Durrer , Roy Maartens

In 1919 Einstein tried to solve the problem of the structure of matter by assuming that the elementary particles are held together solely by gravitational forces. In addition, Einstein also assumed the presence inside matter of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-19 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko , Shahab Shahidi

We develop a cosmological model based on action-dependent Lagrangian theories. The main feature here is the nonconservation of the energy momentum tensor due to the nontrivial geometrical construction of the theory. We provide the basic set…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-05 Thiago R. P. Caramês , H. Velten , J. C. Fabris , Matheus J. Lazo

Recent observational evidences point out towards a late time acceleration of the universe. In order to study the accelerated expansion, scientists have incorporated the existence of an exotic matter with negative pressure, termed as dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-13 Santanu Das , Nilanjana Mahata

We introduce darkons as fluid particles of a Galilean massless self-gravitating fluid. This fluid exhibits anisotropic scaling with $z=5/3$. The minimal gravitational coupling dynamically generates a gravitational mass density of either…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-02-27 Peter C. Stichel , Wojtek J. Zakrzewski

Dark matter, the major component of the matter content of the Universe, played a significant role at early stages during structure formation. But at present the Universe is dark energy dominated as well as accelerating. Here, the presence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-17 Saibal Ray , Utpal Mukhopadhyay , Farook Rahaman , Ruby Sarkar

It is shown that a present acceleration with a past deceleration is a possible solution of the Friedmann equation by considering the Universe as a mixture of a scalar with a matter field and by including a non-equilibrium pressure term in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. M. Kremer , F. P. Devecchi

We investigate the cosmological implications of a new class of modified gravity, where the field equations generically include higher-order derivatives of the matter fields, arising from the introduction of non-dynamical auxiliary fields in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-01 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We discuss a cosmology in which cold dark-matter particles decay into relativistic particles. We argue that such decays could lead naturally to a bulk viscosity in the cosmic fluid. For decay lifetimes comparable to the present hubble age,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James R. Wilson , Grant J. Mathews , George M. Fuller

In this paper we present an alternative explanation to the acceleration of the universe and the dark energy problems in terms of the Friedmann Thermodynamics. This model has the capability of making definite predictions in-line with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Selcuk Bayin