Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2009-09-22
Phys.Rev.D80:103513,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
14 pages, 12 figures, version to appear in Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.103513
Cosmological scaling solutions, which give rise to a scalar-field density proportional to a background fluid density during radiation and matter eras, are attractive to alleviate the energy scale problem of dark energy. In the presence of multiple scalar fields the scaling solution can exit to the epoch of cosmic acceleration through the so-called assisted inflation mechanism. We study cosmological dynamics of a multi-field system in details with a general Lagrangian density p=sum_{i=1}^n X_i g(X_i e^{lambda_i phi_i}), where X_i=-(nabla phi_i)^2/2 is the kinetic energy of the i-th field phi_i, lambda_i is a constant, and g is an arbitrary function in terms of Y_i=X_i e^{lambda_i phi_i}. This covers most of the scalar-field models of dark energy proposed in literature that possess scaling solutions. Using the bound coming from Big-Bang-Nucleosynthesis and the condition under which the each field cannot drive inflation as a single component of the universe, we find the following features: (i) a transient or eternal cosmic acceleration can be realized after the scaling matter era, (ii) a "thawing" property of assisting scalar fields is crucial to determine the evolution of the field equation of state w_{phi}, and (iii) the field equation of state today can be consistent with the observational bound w_{phi}<-0.8 in the presence of multiple scalar fields.
Ohashi Junko
Tsujikawa Shinji
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