Self interacting Brans Dicke cosmology and Quintessence

In our present work, we study the evolution of the universe by assuming an interacting dark energy model, where dark energy interacts with matter. Basing on this model, first we calculated the dark energy density parameter and using this we have picturised the expansion of the universe. From our analysis, we found that presently observed accelerated expansion of the universe can be explained by interacting model, if the dark energy is quintessence type. Though equation of sat...

In this paper, we consider an effective quintessence scalar field with a power-law potential interacting with a $P_{b}=\xi q\rho_{b}$ barotropic fluid as a first model, where $q$ is a deceleration parameter. For the second model we assume viscous polytropic gas interacting with the scalar field. We investigate problem numerically and analyze behavior of different cosmological parameter concerning to components and behavior of Universe. We also compare our results with observa...

The combined effect of a dissipative fluid and quintessence energy can simultaneously drive an accelerated expansion phase at the present time and solve the coincidence problem of our current Universe. A solution compatible with the observed cosmic acceleration is succinctly presented.

We show that the combination of a fluid with a bulk dissipative pressure and quintessence matter can simultaneously drive an accelerated expansion phase and solve the coincidence problem of our current Universe. We then study some scenarios compatible with the observed cosmic acceleration.

We introduce a new form of coupling between dark energy and dark matter that is quadratic in their energy densities. Then we investigate the background dynamics when dark energy is in the form of exponential quintessence. The three types of quadratic coupling all admit late-time accelerating critical points, but these are not scaling solutions. We also show that two types of coupling allow for a suitable matter era at early times and acceleration at late times, while the thir...

We explore quintessence models of dark energy which exhibit non-minimal coupling between the dark matter and the dark energy components of the cosmic fluid. The kind of coupling chosen is inspired in scalar-tensor theories of gravity. We impose a suitable dynamics of the expansion allowing to derive exact Friedmann-Robertson-Walker solutions once the coupling function is given as input. Coupling functions that lead to self-interaction potentials of the single and double expon...

We introduce a theoretical model to alleviate the Hubble tension based on dynamics of a minimally coupled scalar field interacting with both radiation and dark matter in the radiation-dominated era. The model we take up within the Einstein representation of Brans-Dicke theory provides a strong theoretical basis for such interactions. We consider a Brans-Dicke scalar coupled with the thermal bath along with dark matter, so that the scalar field can mimic the cosmological const...

The different definitions for the equation of state of a non-minimally coupled scalar field that have been introduced in the literature are analyzed. Particular emphasis is made upon those features that could yield to an observable way of distinguishing non-minimally coupled theories from General Relativity, with the same or with alternate potentials. It is found that some earlier claims on that super-quintessence, a stage of super-accelerated expansion of the universe, is po...

In this work we explore a model of the universe in which dark energy is modelled explicitely with both a dynamical quintessence field (with a double exponential self-interaction potential) and a cosmological constant. For a given region of the parameter space, our results confirm the possibility of a collapsing universe, which is necessary for an adequate definition of both perturbative quantum field and string theories. We have also reproduced the measurements of modulus dis...

Quintessence and k-essence have been proposed as candidates for the dark energy component of the universe that would be responsible of the currently observed accelerated expansion. In this paper we investigate the degree of resemblance between those two theoretical setups, and find that every quintessence model can be viewed as a k-essence model generated by a kinetic linear function. In addition, we show the true effects of k-essence begin at second order in the expansion of...