Dynamical dark energy with a constant vacuum energy density

Details Dynamical dark energy with a constant vacuum energy density Dynamical dark energy with a constant vacuum energy density

2006-01-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601598v2

Phys.Lett.B636:80-85,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 2 figures, revised, title modified, references added, to appear in Phys. Lett. B

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2006.03.041

We present a holographic dark-energy model in which the Newton constant $G_{N}$ scales in such a way as to render the vacuum energy density a true constant. Nevertheless, the model acts as a dynamical dark-energy model since the scaling of $G_{N}$ goes at the expense of deviation of concentration of dark-matter particles from its canonical form and/or of promotion of their mass to a time-dependent quantity, thereby making the effective equation of state (EOS) variable and different from -1 at the present epoch. Thus the model has a potential to naturally underpin Dirac's suggestion for explaining the large-number hypothesis, which demands a dynamical $G_{N}$ along with the creation of matter in the universe. We show that with the aid of observational bounds on the variation of the gravitational coupling, the effective-field theory IR cutoff can be strongly restricted, being always closer to the future event horizon than to the Hubble distance. As for the observational side, the effective EOS restricted by observation can be made arbitrary close to -1, and therefore the present model can be considered as a ``minimal'' dynamical dark-energy scenario. In addition, for nonzero but small curvature $(|\Omega_{k0}| \lsim 0.003)$, the model easily accommodates a transition across the phantom line for redshifts $z \lsim 0.2 $, as mildly favored by the data. A thermodynamic aspect of the scenario is also discussed.

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