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It is generally argued that the present cosmological observations support the accelerating models of the universe, as driven by the cosmological constant or `dark energy'. We argue here that an alternative model of the universe is possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. V. Narlikar , R. G. Vishwakarma , G. Burbidge

Quintessential inflation models provide a framework that simultaneously describes inflation and dynamical dark energy, the latter of which has recently received growing support from DESI observations. A distinctive feature of these models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Changcheng Jing , George Alestas , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

We present a brief review of various approaches to late time acceleration of universe. The cosmological relevance of scaling solutions is emphasized in case of scalar field models of dark energy. The underlying features of a variety of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-21 M. Sami

Various cosmological models in frames of $F(T)$ gravity are considered. The general scheme of constructing effective dark energy models with various evolution is presented. It is showed that these models in principle are compatible with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Artyom V. Astashenok

In this paper we propose a quintessence model with the potential $V(\Phi )=V_{o}[ \sinh {(\alpha \sqrt{\kappa_{o}}\Delta \Phi})] ^{\beta}$, which asymptotic behavior corresponds to an inverse power-law potential at early times and to an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 L. A. Urena-Lopez , T. Matos

A six parameter cosmological model, involving a vacuum energy density that is extremely tiny compared to fundamental particle physics scales, describes a large body of increasingly accurate astronomical data. In a first part of this brief…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Norbert Straumann

In this study, we will look at an interacting dark energy model. In the framework of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) space-time, we have made the hypothesis of an interacting scheme between two fields (dark matter (DM) and dark energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-27 J. K. Singh , Ritika Nagpal

Theories with a pole in the kinetic term have been used to great effect in studying inflation, owing to their quantum stability and attractor properties. We explore the use of such pole kinetic terms in dark energy theories, finding an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Eric V. Linder

Quantum mechanics together with general relativity leads to the K\'arolyh\'azy relation and a corresponding energy density of quantum fluctuations of space-time. Based on the energy density we propose a dark energy model, in which the age…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rong-Gen Cai

The cosmic acceleration is one of the most significant cosmological discoveries over the last century. The two categories of explanation are exotic component (dark energy) and modified gravity. We constrain the two types of model by a joint…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-20 Hongsheng Zhang , Heng Yu , Hyerim Noh , Zong-Hong Zhu

Cosmic acceleration manifested in the early universe as inflation, generating primordial gravitational waves detectable in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. Cosmic acceleration is occurring again at present as dark energy,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 Tilek Zhumabek , Mikhail Denissenya , Eric V. Linder

We consider the cosmological application of Lee-Wick theory where a field has a higher derivative kinetic operators. The higher derivative term can be eliminated by introducing a set of auxiliary fields. We investigate the cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-08 Seokcheon Lee

We construct a family of viable scalar-tensor models of dark energy (DE) which possess a phase of late-time acceleration preceded by a standard matter era, while at the same time satisfying the local gravity constraints (LGC). The coupling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shinji Tsujikawa , Kotub Uddin , Shuntaro Mizuno , Reza Tavakol , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

ecent observations of type Ia supernovae indicate that the Universe is in an accelerating phase of expansion. The fundamental quest in theoretical cosmology is to identify the origin of this phenomenon. In principle there are two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Marek Szydlowski

The past and recent data analyses gave some hints of steps in dark energy. Considering the dark energy as a dynamical scalar field, we investigate several models with various steps: a step in the scalar potential, a step in the kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Tower Wang

Keeping in mind the current picture of an accelerating and flat Universe, some specific dynamical models of the cosmological term $\Lambda$ have been selected for investigating the nature of dark energy. Connecting the free parameters of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Saibal Ray , Utpal Mukhopadhyay , Xin-He Meng

Two models that unify warm inflation with dark matter and dark energy are proposed. In the models, a single scalar field is responsible for the early expansion of the universe through the process of dissipative warm inflation and then acts…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-30 Xiao-Min Zhang , Kai Li , Yi-Fu Guo , Peng-Cheng Chu. He Liu , Jian-Yang Zhu

Dark energy and dark matter are only indirectly measured via their gravitational effects. It is possible that there is an exchange of energy within the dark sector, and this offers an interesting alternative approach to the coincidence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-24 Gabriela Caldera-Cabral , Roy Maartens , L. Arturo Urena-Lopez

Axions have emerged as compelling candidates for describing the dark sector of the Universe. In this work, we explore quintessence models inspired by axion-like potentials as a dynamical alternative to the cosmological constant. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Hsu-Wen Chiang , Carlos G. Boiza , Mariam Bouhmadi-López

One of the most compelling goals of observational cosmology is the characterisation of the properties of the dark energy component thought to be responsible for the recent acceleration of the universe, including its possible dynamics. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 C. J. A. P. Martins , M. Prat Colomer