Crossing the phantom barrier with purely kinetic multiple k-essence
Abstract
We consider multiple k-essence sources and obtain the conditions their kinetic functions must satisfy so that purely kinetic k-essences lead to models with phantom barrier crossing. After that, we show that polynomial kinetic functions allow the integration of the dynamical equations determining the geometry and the k-fields. The models thus obtained have accelerated expansion at late cosmic time, representing universes ending at a finite time with a big rip singularity. In addition, these models begin to evolve from an initial singularity, so they have a finite time span.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- August 2006
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0604090
- Bibcode:
- 2006PhLB..639..591C
- Keywords:
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- 98.80.-k;
- 95.36.+x;
- 98.80.Jk;
- Cosmology;
- Dark energy;
- Mathematical and relativistic aspects of cosmology;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, revtex