A note on crossing the phantom divide in hybrid dark energy model

Hao Wei*, Rong Gen Cai

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Abstract

Recently a lot of attention has been given to building dark energy models in which the equation-of-state parameter w can cross the phantom divide w=-1. However, to our knowledge, these models with crossing the phantom divide only provide the possibility that w can cross -1. They do not answer another question: why crossing phantom divide occurs recently? Since in many existing models whose equation-of-state parameter can cross the phantom divide, w undulates around -1 randomly, why are we living in an epoch w<-1? This can be regarded as the second cosmological coincidence problem. In this Letter, we propose a possible approach to alleviate this problem within a hybrid dark energy model.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9-13
Number of pages5
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume634
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Mar 2006
Externally publishedYes

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