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All observational evidence for dark matter and dark energy is so far exclusively gravitational. Hence, the dark sector may be equivalently described by a theory of the spacetime metric whose dynamics is affected by interactions with an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Santiago Agüí Salcedo , Thomas Colas , Lennard Dufner , Enrico Pajer

We outline a dynamical dark energy scenario whose signatures may be simultaneously tested by astronomical observations and laboratory experiments. The dark energy is a field with slightly sub-gravitational couplings to matter, a logarithmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Nemanja Kaloper

Stability analysis of agegraphic dark energy in Brans-Dicke theory is presented in this paper. We constrain the model parameters with the observational data and thus the results become broadly consistent with those expected from experiment.…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 H. Farajollahi , J. Sadeghi , M. Pourali , A. Salehi

The two most popular candidates for dark energy, i.e. a cosmological constant and quintessence, are very difficult to distinguish observationally, mostly because the quintessence field does not have sizable fluctuations. We study a scalar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Massimo Pietroni

We propose a technically natural scenario whereby an initially large cosmological constant (c.c.) is relaxed down to the observed value due to the dynamics of a scalar evolving on a very shallow potential. The model crucially relies on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-04 Lasma Alberte , Paolo Creminelli , Andrei Khmelnitsky , David Pirtskhalava , Enrico Trincherini

In this work we consider quantum electromagnetic fields in an expanding universe. We start by reviewing the difficulties found when trying to impose the Lorenz condition in a time-dependent geometry. Motivated by this fact, we explore the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Antonio L. Maroto

The dark sector of the Universe need not be completely separable into distinct dark matter and dark energy components. We consider a model of early dark energy in which the dark energy mimics a dark matter component in both evolution and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Jannis Bielefeld , Robert R. Caldwell , Eric V. Linder

This article questions the common assumption of cold dark matter (DM) by exploring the possibility of a non-zero equation of state (EoS) without relying on any parametric approach. In standard cosmological analyses, DM is typically modeled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Mazaharul Abedin , Luis A. Escamilla , Supriya Pan , Eleonora Di Valentino , Weiqiang Yang

After decades of successful hot big-bang paradigm, Cosmology still lacks a framework in which the early inflationary phase of the universe smoothly matches the radiation epoch and evolves to the present `quasi' de Sitter spacetime. No less…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Basilakos , J. A. S. Lima , J. Solà

The manifestation of the dark Universe begun with unexpected large scale astronomical observations. Here we are investigating the origin of small scale anomalies, like that of the annually observed temperature anomalies in the stratosphere.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-24 K. Zioutas , A. Argiriou , H. Fischer , S. Hofmann , M. Maroudas , A. Pappa , Y. K. Semertzidis

Recently, the observed equation of state for dark energy appears to favor values below $-1$. The tendency implies that the nature of dark energy may be quite different from that of the cosmological constant. In view of the adjustment on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Yu-Ping Teng , Wolung Lee , Kin-Wang Ng

The physical nature of the presently dominating enigmatic dark energy in the expanding universe is demonstrated to be explainable as an excess of the kinetic energy with respect to its potential energy. According to traditional Friedman…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Arved Sapar

We investigate the possibility of replacing the cosmological constant with gradual condensation of a scalar field produced during the decay of a superheavy dark matter. The advantage of this class of models to the ordinary quintessence is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Houri Ziaeepour

We consider the history of the universe from a possible big bang or a bounce into a late period of a unified interacting dark energy - dark matter model. The model is based on the Two Measures Theories (T.M.T.) which introduces a metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-30 David Benisty , Eduardo I. Guendelman

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

Recently, the vacuum energy of the QCD ghost in a time-dependent background is proposed as a kind of dark energy candidate to explain the acceleration of the Universe. In this model, the energy density of the dark energy is proportional to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-03 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li , Xian-Yong Shen

We propose a cosmological model that makes a significant step toward solving the coincidence problem of the near similarity at the present of the dark energy and dark matter components. Our cosmology has the following properties: a) among…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Luca Amendola , Domenico Tocchini-Valentini

Dark energy observations may be explained within general relativity using an inhomogeneous Hubble-scale depression in the matter density and accompanying curvature, which evolves naturally out of an Einstein-de Sitter (EdS) model. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-10 Sean February , Julien Larena , Mathew Smith , Chris Clarkson

Based on the analogy with superconductor physics we consider a scalar-vector-tensor gravitational model, in which the dark energy action is described by a gauge invariant electromagnetic type functional. By assuming that the ground state of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Shi-Dong Liang , Tiberiu Harko

Cosmological observations of the recent universe suggest that dark energy equation of state parameter $w$ is growing with time, departing from a cosmological constant for which $w=-1$. Standard quintessence models allow for a varying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-11 David Andriot