Cosmological dynamics of multifield dark energy

Abstract

We numerically and analytically explore the background cosmological dynamics of multifield dark energy with highly nongeodesic or "spinning" field-space trajectories. These extensions of standard single-field quintessence possess appealing theoretical features and observable differences from the cosmological standard model. At the level of the cosmological background, we perform a phase-space analysis and identify approximate attractors with late-time acceleration for a wide range of initial conditions. Focusing on two classes of field-space geometry, we derive bounds on parameter space by demanding viable late-time acceleration and the absence of gradient instabilities, as well as from the de Sitter swampland conjecture.

19 pages, 12 figures. v2: Improved and published version

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