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arxiv: 1109.1092 · v2 · pith:XZYTJSBCnew · submitted 2011-09-06 · ✦ hep-th · astro-ph.CO· gr-qc

"Teleparallel" Dark Energy

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keywords equivalentnonminimalricherstructureteleparallelabsenceallowingalthough
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Using the "teleparallel" equivalent of General Relativity as the gravitational sector, which is based on torsion instead of curvature, we add a canonical scalar field, allowing for a nonminimal coupling with gravity. Although the minimal case is completely equivalent to standard quintessence, the nonminimal scenario has a richer structure, exhibiting quintessence-like or phantom-like behavior, or experiencing the phantom-divide crossing. The richer structure is manifested in the absence of a conformal transformation to an equivalent minimally-coupled model.

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