Dark energy dominance and cosmic acceleration in first order formalism

Apr, 2005
19 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 72 (2005) 063505
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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.
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  • 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