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Any connection between dark matter and extra dimensions can be cognizably evinced from the associated effective energy-momentum tensor. In order to investigate and test such relationship, a higher dimensional spacetime endowed with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-17 C. H. Coimbra-Araujo , Roldao da Rocha

In this paper we review a part of the approaches that have been considered to explain the extraordinary discovery of the late time acceleration of the Universe. We discuss the arguments that have led physicists and astronomers to accept…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Domenico Sapone

Cosmology is living through fascinating times, where new observations from ground and space telescopes are questioning the established paradigm, the so-called Lambda Cold Dark Matter model. The particle nature of Dark Matter is severely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Juan Garcia-Bellido

Observations suggest that nearly seventy per cent of the energy density in the universe is unclustered and exerts negative pressure. Theoretical understanding of this component (`dark energy'), which is driving an accelerated expansion of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Padmanabhan

Three-forms can give rise to viable cosmological scenarios of inflation and dark energy with potentially observable signatures distinct from standard single scalar field models. In this study, the background dynamics and linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Tomi S. Koivisto , Nelson J. Nunes

In this article, we review a series of recent theoretical results regarding a conventional approach to the dark energy (DE) concept. This approach is distinguished among others for its simplicity and its physical relevance. By compromising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Kostas Kleidis , Nikolaos K. Spyrou

We present a quintessence model for the dark energy in which the quintessence scalar field is produced by the decay of a super heavy dark matter and gradually condensate to a classical scalar field. This model can explain both the smallness…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Houri Ziaeepour

First, we describe the construction of a new type of gravity-matter models based on the formalism of non-Riemannian space-time volume forms - alternative generally covariant integration measure densities (volume elements) defined in terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-29 Eduardo Guendelman , Emil Nissimov , Svetlana Pacheva

The standard model of the universe, $\lambda$CDM, is based on the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker metric with a flat three-dimensional coordinate space and the Friedmann equations~\cite{ParticleDataGroup:2024cfk}. The cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-24 M. M. Musakhanov

Dark energy is interpreted as the leftover of mostly canceled vacuum energy due to the spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking (SMSB) at the electroweak phase transition. Based on the newly proposed mirror-matter model (M$^3$), the extended…

General Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Wanpeng Tan

We show that a new force, which appeared in a five-dimensional generalization of general relativity, implies precisely the flat circular velocity curves of luminous matter observed in the outer parts of spiral galaxies. A cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. L. Ingraham , L. A. Cummings

There is compelling evidence that the Universe is undergoing a late phase of accelerated expansion. One of the simplest explanations for this behaviour is the presence of dark energy. A plethora of microphysical models for dark energy have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-25 William J. Wolf , Pedro G. Ferreira

Cosmological models with Lagrange multipliers are appealing because they could explain the behaviour of the dark sector in a unified way. In this work we analyse extensions to the "Dust of Dark Energy model" proposed in arXiv:1003.5751 by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Antonella Cid , Pedro Labrana

In cosmology it has become usual to introduce new entities as dark matter and dark energy in order to explain otherwise unexplained observational facts. Here, we propose a different approach treating spacetime as a continuum endowed with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Tartaglia , M. Capone

A unification of dark matter and dark energy based on a dynamical space time theory is suggested. By introducing a dynamical space time vector field $\chi_\mu$ as a Lagrange multiplier, a conservation of an energy momentum tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-11 David Benisty , Eduardo I. Guendelman

An extension to the Einstein-Cartan (EC) action is discussed in terms of cosmological solutions. The torsion incorporated in the EC Lagrangian is assumed to be totally anti-symmetric, represented by a time-like axial vector $S^\mu$. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 David Benisty , Eduardo I. Guendelman , Armin van de Venn , David Vasak , Jürgen Struckmeier , Horst Stoecker

The universe content is considered as a non-perfect fluid with bulk viscosity and can be described by a general equation of state (endowed some deviation from the conventionally assumed cosmic perfect fluid model). An explicitly bulk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-16 X H Meng , X Dou

We present a new mechanism for cosmic acceleration consisting of a scalar field coupled to a triplet of classical U(1) gauge fields. The gauge fields are arranged in a homogeneous, isotropic configuration, with both electric- and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Avery J. Tishue , Robert R. Caldwell

Dark energy is one of the mysteries of modern science. It is unlike any known form of matter or energy and has been detected so far only by its gravitational effect of repulsion. Owing to its effects being discernible only at very very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-25 Aruna Kesavan

The concept of an all pervading Aether is age old, and contrary to popular belief, it survived the twentieth century too though with different nuances. Using this concept of a background Quantum Vacuum, the author in 1997 proposed a…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Burra G. Sidharth