Published July 13, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Quintom cosmologies admitting either tracking or phantom attractors

  • 1. Fisika Teorikoa, Zientzia eta Teknologia Fakultatea, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 644 Posta Kutxatila, 48080 Bilbao (Spain)
  • 2. Universidad Central de Las Villas, Santa Clara CP 54830 (Cuba)

Description

In this Letter we investigate the evolution of a class of cosmologies fueled by quintom dark energy and dark matter. Quintom dark energy is a hybrid of quintessence and phantom which involves the participation of two real scalar fields playing the roles of those two types of dark energy. In that framework we examine, from a dynamical systems perspective, the possibility that those fields are coupled among them by considering an exponential potential with an interesting functional dependence similar but not identical to others studied before. The model we consider represents a counterexample to the typical behavior of quintom models with exponential potentials because it admits either tracking attractors (w=0), or phantom attractors (w<-1)

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2006.05.075;
arXiv
arXiv:astro-ph/0602590v1;
PII
S0370-2693(06)00666-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
638
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 303-309
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38062586
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ATTRACTORS; COSMOLOGY; GALACTIC EVOLUTION; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; POTENTIALS; SCALAR FIELDS
Descriptors DEC
EVOLUTION; MATTER

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.