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- Title
Variable G and Λ: scalar-tensor versus RG-improved cosmology.
- Authors
Claudio Rubano; Paolo Scudellaro
- Abstract
Abstract We study the consequences due to time varying G and ? in scalar-tensor theories of gravity for cosmology, inspired by the modifications introduced by the Renormalization Group (RG) equations in the Quantum Einstein Gravity. We assume a power-law scale factor in presence contemporarily of both the scalar field and the matter components of the cosmic fluid, and analyze a special case and its generalization, also showing the possibility of a phantom cosmology. In both such situations we find a negative kinetic term for the scalar field Q and, possibly, an equation-of-state parameter wQ < -1. A violation of dominant energy condition (DEC) for Q is also possible in both of them; but, while in the first special case the Q-energy density then remains positive, in the second one we find it negative.
- Publication
General Relativity & Gravitation, 2005, Vol 37, Issue 3, p521
- ISSN
0001-7701
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10714-005-0040-0