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Models of the universe with arbitrary (non gravitational) interaction between the components of the cosmic fluid: the phantom energy and the background, are investigated. A general form of the interaction that is inspired in scalar-tensor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-22 Ruben Curbelo , Tame Gonzalez , Genly León , Israel Quiros

This paper presents an investigation of cosmological dynamics of tachyon fluid coupled to varyingmass dark matter particles in the background of spatially flat FLRW universe. The mechanism of varying mass particles scenario assumes the mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Goutam Mandal , Sudip Mishra , Abdulla Al Mamon , Sujay Kr. Biswas

The equations for quintessential $\alpha$-attractor inflation with a single scalar field, radiation and matter in a spatially flat FLRW spacetime are recast into a regular dynamical system on a compact state space. This enables a complete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-08 Artur Alho , Claes Uggla

We study the Universe at the late stage of its evolution and deep inside the cell of uniformity. At such a scale the Universe is highly inhomogeneous and filled with discretely distributed inhomogeneities in the form of galaxies and groups…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Mariam Bouhmadi-López , João Morais , Alexander Zhuk

We consider here a spherically symmetric but inhomogeneous universe filled with a massless scalar field. The model obeys two constraints. The first one is that the gradient of the scalar field is timelike everywhere. The second constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-20 Swastik Bhattacharya , Pankaj S. Joshi , Ken-ichi Nakao

We present self-similar cosmological solutions for a barotropic fluid plus scalar field with Brans-Dicke-type coupling to the spacetime curvature and an arbitrary power-law potential energy. We identify all the fixed points in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Damien J. Holden , David Wands

The accelerated expansion of the universe has now been confirmed by several independent observations including those of high redshift type Ia supernovae, and the cosmic microwave background combined with the large scale structure of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-30 E. M. C. Abreu , L. P. G. De Assis , C. M. L. dos Reis

Recently tachyonic field has been depicted as dark energy model to represent the present acceleration of the Universe. In this paper we have considered mixture of tachyonic fluid with a perfect fluid. For this purpose we have considered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Writambhara Chakraborty , Ujjal Debnath

We study the properties of cosmological density perturbations in a multi-component system consisting of a scalar field and a perfect fluid. We discuss the number of degrees of freedom completely describing the system, introduce a full set…

In this work we perform some studies related to dark energy. Firstly, we propose a dynamical approach to explain the dark energy content of the universe. We assume that a massless scalar field couples to the Hubble parameter with some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 Fei Wang , Jin Min Yang

An interesting approach to the cosmological coincidence problem is to allow dark matter and dark energy interact with each other also nongravitationally. We consider two general Ans\"{a}tze for such an interaction and appraise their ability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-10 Pedro C. Ferreira , Diego Pavón , Joel C. Carvalho

We investigate the tachyonic cosmological potential $V(\phi)$ in two different cases of the quasi-exponential expansion of universe and discuss various forms of interaction between the two components---matter and the cosmological…

General Physics · Physics 2012-07-12 Murli Manohar Verma , Shankar Dayal Pathak

We consider scalar tensor theories of gravity assuming that the scalar field is non minimally coupled with gravity. We use this theory to study evolution of a flat homogeneous and isotropic universe. In this case the dynamical equations can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-13 M. Demianski , E. Piedipalumbo , C. Rubano , C. Tortora

We consider an original variational approach for building new models of quintessence interacting with dark or baryonic matter. The coupling is introduced at the Lagrangian level using a variational formulation for relativistic fluids, where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-10 Christian G. Boehmer , Nicola Tamanini , Matthew Wright

In this paper, we investigate the agegraphic dark energy (ADE) model by including the sign-changeable interaction between ADE and dark matter in non-flat universe. It is shown that the interaction induces an energy flow of which the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Y. D. Xu

We propose a novel coupled dark energy model which is assumed to occur as a q-deformed scalar field and investigate whether it will provide an expanding universe phase. We consider the q-deformed dark energy as coupled to dark matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-09 Emre Dil

The coincidence problem of late cosmic acceleration constitutes a serious riddle with regard to our understanding of the evolution of the Universe. Here we argue that this problem may someday be solved -or better understood- by expressing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergio del Campo , Ramon Herrera , Diego Pavon

We determine the range of parameter space of an interacting quintessence (IQ) model that best fits the luminosity distance of type Ia supernovae data and the recent WMAP measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background temperature anisotropies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 German Olivares , Fernando Atrio-Barandela , Diego Pavon

In this paper, we wish to point out the possibility of using a complex scalar field to account for the inflationary stage and the current acceleration. By the analysis of the dynamical system and numerical work, we show that the amplitude…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Xiang-hua Zhai , Yi-bin Zhao

Dark energy can be characterized by a canonical scalar field, known as quintessence. Quintessence allows for a dynamical equation of state $-1 \le \omega \le -\frac{1}{3}$. A previous study by Oikonomou and Chatzarakis have shown that a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Sreerag Radhakrishnan , Sarath Nelleri , Navaneeth Poonthottathil