A Unified Model of Phantom Energy and Dark Matter

作者：Chaves Max^*; Singleton Douglas

来源：Symmetry Integrability and Geometry-Methods and Applications, 2008, 4: 009.

DOI：10.3842/SIGMA.2008.009

• dark energy
• phantom energy
• graded algebras

To explain the acceleration of the cosmological expansion researchers have considered an unusual form of mass-energy generically called dark energy. Dark energy has a ratio of pressure over mass density which obeys w = p/rho < -1/3. This form of mass-energy leads to accelerated expansion. An extreme form of dark energy, called phantom energy, has been proposed which has w = p/rho < -1. This possibility is favored by the observational data. The simplest model for phantom energy involves the introduction of a scalar field with a negative kinetic energy term. Here we show that theories based on graded Lie algebras naturally have such a negative kinetic energy and thus give a model for phantom energy in a less ad hoc manner. We find that the model also contains ordinary scalar fields and anti-commuting (Grassmann) vector fields which act as a form of two component dark matter. Thus from a gauge theory based on a graded algebra we naturally obtained both phantom energy and dark matter.

• 出版日期2008