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    Citation - WoS: 9
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    Is It Possible To Obtain Cosmic Accelerated Expansion Through Energy Transfer Between Different Energy Densities?
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2017) Erdem, Recai
    The equation of state of an energy density may be significantly modified by coupling it to another energy density. In the light of this observation we check the possibility of producing cosmic accelerated expansion in this way. In particular we consider the case where matter is converted to radiation (or vice versa by particle physics processes). We find that cosmic accelerated expansion can be obtained in this way only if an intermediate state with negative equation of state forms during the conversion.
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    Citation - WoS: 17
    Citation - Scopus: 19
    Cosmological Consequences of a Variable Cosmological Constant Model
    (World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd, 2017) Azri, Hemza; Bounames, A.
    We derive a model of dark energy which evolves with time via the scale factor. The equation-of-state is studied as a function of a parameter α introduced in this model as = (1 - 2α)/(1 + 2α). In addition to the recent accelerated expansion, the model predicts another decelerated phase. These two phases are studied via the parameter α. The age of the universe is found to be almost consistent with the observation. In the limiting case, the cosmological constant model, we find that vacuum energy gravitates with a tiny gravitational constant which evolves with the scale factor, rather than with Newton's constant. This enables degravitation of the vacuum energy which in turn produces the tiny observed curvature, rather than a 120 orders of magnitude larger value.
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    Citation - WoS: 1
    Citation - Scopus: 1
    Extra dimensions, dilaton and dark energy
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2011) Rador, Tonguç
    In view of the recent observations showing that the universe is accelerating we discuss dilaton and radion stabilization from a phenomenological perspective using perfect fluid sources. One general conclusion we present is that the pressure coefficient along extra dimensions should be -2 if that of the observed dimensions is -1, the latter mimicking a cosmological constant compatible with experimental data. The conditions on the dilaton coupling are similarly strong: we find that if the coupling of the dilaton Φ to fields other than gravity is of the form -ge(a-2)ΦL where L representing all other fields yielding the mentioned fluid, a must be -2 if space-time dimensionality is 10. Within our approach these conditions result taking constant radion and dilaton at the level of the equations of motion. To ameliorate this we also discuss how dynamical stabilization may be achieved with a simple variant in which a dilaton potential is added in the picture where the mentioned constraints are shown to remain.