Coupled quintessence and curvature-assisted acceleration

Details Coupled quintessence and curvature-assisted acceleration Coupled quintessence and curvature-assisted acceleration

2006-06-26

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0606113v2

Class.Quant.Grav. 23 (2006) 5983-5995

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

17 pages, no figures. v2: typos corrected

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/23/20/018

Spatially homogeneous models with a scalar field non-minimally coupled to the space-time curvature or to the ordinary matter content are analysed with respect to late-time asymptotic behaviour, in particular to accelerated expansion and isotropization. It is found that a direct coupling to the curvature leads to asymptotic de Sitter expansion in arbitrary exponential potentials, thus yielding a positive cosmological constant although none is apparent in the potential. This holds true regardless of the steepness of the potential or the smallness of the coupling constant. For matter-coupled scalar fields, the asymptotics are obtained for a large class of positive potentials, generalizing the well-known cosmic no-hair theorems for minimal coupling. In this case it is observed that the direct coupling to matter does not impact the late-time dynamics essentially.

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