Complex Lagrangians and phantom cosmology
Abstract
Motivated by the generalization of quantum theory for the case of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with PT symmetry, we show how a classical cosmological model describes a smooth transition from ordinary dark energy to the phantom one. The model is based on a classical complex Lagrangian of a scalar field. Specific symmetry properties analogous to PT in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics lead to purely real equations of motion.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics A Mathematical General
- Pub Date:
- August 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0305-4470/39/32/S02
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/0604126
- Bibcode:
- 2006JPhA...39.9975A
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, to be published in J.Phys.A, refs. added