$p$-form quintessence: exploring dark energy of $p-$forms coupled to a scalar field

Abstract

We consider a model based on $p-$form kinetic Lagrangians in the context of dark energy. The Lagrangian of the model is built with kinetic terms of the field strength for each $p$-form coupled to a scalar field $\varphi$ through a kinetic function. We assume that this scalar field is responsible for the present accelerated expansion of the Universe. Since we are interested in cosmological applications, we specialize the analysis to a 4-dimensional case, using an anisotropic space-time. By studying the dynamical equations, we investigate the evolution of the dark energy density parameter, the effective equation of state and the shear induced by the anisotropic configuration.

6 pages, 2 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG15) held at "La Sapienza" University in Rome, Italy, July 1-7, 2018; based on the talk given at the parallel session DE1 "Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe". Complementary to arXiv:1810.05301 and arXiv:1902.05846