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Disformally coupled quintessence
- Source :
- Physical Review D. 101
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 2020.
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Abstract
- In this work we consider a cosmological model in which dark energy is portrayed by a canonical scalar field which is allowed to couple to the other species by means of a disformal transformation of the metric. We revisit the current literature by assuming that the disformal function in the metric transformation can depend both on the scalar field itself and on its derivatives, encapsulating a wide variety of scalar-tensor theories. This generalisation also leads to new and richer phenomenology, explaining some of the features found in previously studied models. We present the background equations and perform a detailed dynamical analysis, from where new disformal fixed points emerge, that translate into novel cosmological features. These include early scaling regimes between the coupled species and broader stability parameter regions. However, viable cosmological models seem to have suppressed disformal late-time contributions.<br />Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures. V2: Matches published version
Details
- ISSN :
- 24700029 and 24700010
- Volume :
- 101
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review D
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b20bb88ec537a869e3cfc3577cc261a2