Quintessence with Kaluza-Klein type couplings to matter and an isotropy-violating vector field

Abstract

We study the dynamics of a scalar field with Kaluza-Klein type couplings to cold dark matter and an isotropy-violating vector field. The vector coupling, $f^2(\varphi )F^2$, has been studied thoroughly in the context of inflation recently. We generalize the model to a dark energy context and study the cosmological consequences. We find a rich set of exact anisotropic power-law solutions and identify a strong vector coupling regime where the anisotropy is controllable and all solutions are close to the LCDM limit.

3 pages, 1 figure. Contribution to the proceedings of the 13th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG13), Stockholm, 1-7 July 2012