Dark energy dominance and cosmic acceleration in first order formalism
Apr, 2005
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Abstract: (arXiv)
The current accelerated universe could be produced by modified gravitational dynamics as it can be seen in particular in its Palatini formulation. We analyze here a specific non-linear gravity-scalar system in the first order Palatini formalism which leads to a FRW cosmology different from the purely metric one. It is shown that the emerging FRW cosmology may lead either to an effective quintessence phase (cosmic speed-up) or to an effective phantom phase. Moreover, the already known gravity assisted dark energy dominance occurs also in the first order formalism. Finally, it is shown that a dynamical theory able to resolve the cosmological constant problem exists also in this formalism, in close parallel with the standard metric formulation.Note:
- 21 pages, LaTeX file, no figures. Replaced version to be published on Phys. Rev. D
- 04.20.-q
- 98.80.Jk
- dark energy
- astrophysics: acceleration
- gravitation
- coupling
- nonlinear
- field theory: scalar
- quintessence
- cosmological constant
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