Parametrizations of Dark Energy Models in the Background of General Non-canonical Scalar Field in $D$-dimensional Fractal Universe
Ujjal Debnath, Kazuharu Bamba

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This paper investigates non-canonical scalar field dark energy models within a D-dimensional fractal universe, analyzing parametrizations and fitting model parameters to observational data to understand cosmic acceleration.
Contribution
It introduces a framework for parametrizing non-canonical scalar fields in fractal universes and provides best-fit parameters based on multiple cosmological datasets.
Findings
Best-fit values of ($w_0$, $w_1$) for different models
Graphs of potential, scalar field, and other parameters at various confidence levels
Minimum chi-squared values indicating model fits
Abstract
We explore non-canonical scalar field model in the background of non-flat -dimensional fractal Universe with cosmological constant on the condition that the matter and scalar field are separately conserved. The potential , scalar field , function , densities, Hubble parameter and deceleration parameter can be expressed in terms of the redshift and these depend on the equation of state parameter . We also investigate four kinds of well known parametrization models and graphically we have analyzed the natures of potential, scalar field, function , densities, the Hubble parameter and deceleration parameter. As a result, the best fitted values of the unknown parameters () of the parametrizations models due to the joint data analysis (SNIa+BAO+CMB+Hubble) are found. Furthermore, the minimum values of function are obtained.…
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Parametrizations of Dark Energy Models in the Background of General
Non-canonical Scalar Field in -dimensional Fractal Universe
**Ujjal Debnath
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Engineering
Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah-711 103, India.
Kazuharu Bamba
Division of Human Support System, Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science,
Fukushima University, Fukushima 960-1296, Japan.** **[email protected]****[email protected] **
Abstract
We have explored non-canonical scalar field model in the background of non-flat -dimensional fractal Universe on the condition that the matter and scalar field are separately conserved. The potential , scalar field , function , densities, Hubble parameter and deceleration parameter can be expressed in terms of the redshift and these depend on the equation of state parameter . We have also investigated the cosmological analysis of four kinds of well known parametrization models. In graphically, we have analyzed the natures of potential, scalar field, function , densities, the Hubble parameter and deceleration parameter. As a result, the best fitted values of the unknown parameters () of the parametrization models due to the joint data analysis (SNIa+BAO+CMB+Hubble) have been found. Furthermore, the minimum values of function have been obtained. Also we have plotted the graphs for different confidence levels 66%, 90% and 99% contours for () by fixing the other parameters.
Keywords: Scalar field, Fractal Universe, Parametrization models, Data fittings
1 Introduction
During last two decades, several observations like type Ia Supernovae, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiations, large scale structure (LSS), Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), Planck observations [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] suggest that our Universe is experiencing an accelerated expansion due to some unknown exotic fluid which generates sufficient negative pressure, known as dark energy (DE). Although a long-time debate has been done on this well-reputed and interesting issue of modern cosmology, we still have little knowledge about DE. The most appealing and simplest candidate for DE is the cosmological constant . Since the source of the DE still now unknown, so several candidates of the DE models have been proposed in the literatures where the scalar field plays a significant role in cosmology as they are sufficiently complicated to produce the observed dynamics. Recently many cosmological models have been constructed by introducing dark energies such as quintessence, Phantom, Tachyon, k-essence, dilaton, Hessence, DBI-essence, ghost condensate, quintom, Chaplygin gas models, interacting dark energy models [13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30]. A review on dynamics of dark energy has been studied in ref [31]. Another approach to explore the accelerated expansion of the universe is the modified theories of gravity. The main candidates of modified gravity includes brane world models, DGP brane, LQC, Brans-Dicke gravity, Gauss-Bonnet gravity, Horava-Lifshitz gravity, gravity, gravity, gravity etc [32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44]. Also for recent reviews on the issue of dark energy and modified gravity theories, see, for instance, [45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51].
Motivated by high energy physics, the scalar field models play an significant role to explain the nature of DE due to its simple dynamics [52, 53]. In the very early epoch of the Universe, it is strongly believed that the universe had a very rapid exponential growth during a very short era (which is known as inflation). During this era, there was a single canonical scalar field called inflaton [5] which has a canonical kinetic energy term in the Lagrangian density. The simplest form of the canonical scalar field is known as quintessence field, which alone cannot explain the phantom crossing. Also the canonical scalar field cannot fully explain several cosmological natures of the Universe. So non-canonical scalar field was proposed to solve several important cosmological problems [54, 55]. For instance, the non-canonical scalar field can resolve the coincidence problem [56]. So it is reasonable to consider the non-canonical scalar field as a viable cosmological model of DE candidate. In general, the non-canonical scalar field involves higher order derivatives term of a scalar field in the Horndeski Lagrangian [57]. For instance, the -essence is one of the simple form of a non-canonical scalar field model. In the present work, we will consider non-canonical scalar field model with general form of -essence Lagrangian [58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64].
The idea of fractal effects in the Einstein’s equations is another approach to cosmic acceleration in a gravity theory. Calcagni [65, 66] discussed the quantum gravity phenomena and different cosmological properties in fractal universe. Fractal features of quantum gravity and Cosmology in -dimensions have also been investigated. Also it has been discussed the properties of a scalar field model at classical and quantum level. The Multi-scale gravity and cosmology have been studied in [67]. Karami et al [68] have investigated the holographic, new agegraphic and ghost dark energy models in the framework of fractal cosmology. Lemets et al [69] have studied the interacting dark energy models in the fractal universe with the interaction between dark energy and dark matter. Sheykhi et al [70] have analyzed the thermodynamical properties on the apparent horizon in the fractal universe. Chattopadhyay et al [71] have discussed some special forms of holographic Ricci dark energy in fractal Universe. Halder et al [72] have presented a comparative study of different entropies in fractal Universe. Maity and Debnath [73] have studied the co-existence of modified Chaplygin gas and other dark energies in the framework of fractal Universe. Jawad et al [74] have studied the implications of pilgrim dark energy models in the fractal Universe. Das et al [75] have described cosmic scenario in the framework of fractal Universe. Sardi et al [76] have studied an interacting new holographic dark energy in the framework of fractal cosmology.
In the present work, we consider the non-canonical scalar field model in the background of effective fractal spacetime. We shall extend the work of ref [63] in the framework of -dimensional fractal spacetime by considering more general power law form of kinetic term. We shall try to obtain the observationally viable model to describe the nature of the equation of state (EoS) parameter for the scalar field and the deceleration parameter which are functions of redshift . To describe the DE evolutions, we will choose four kinds of well known parametrizations models for different choices of . We found the best fit values and confidence contours of two parameters for different forms of by considering the observational data analysis of SNIa, BAO, CMB and Hubble. The paper is organized as follows: In section 2, we discuss a general non-canonical scalar field model in the framework of non-flat model of -dimensional fractal Universe. By suitable choice of the function , we obtain potential function and Hubble parameter in terms of and EoS parameter . Then we choose four kinds of EoS parameter to obtain . In section 3, we provide the joint data analysis mechanism for the observations of SNIa, BAO, CMB and Hubble. Finally we discuss the results of the work in section 4.
2 Non-Canonical Scalar Field Model in Fractal Universe
In the fractal Universe [65], the space and time co-ordinates scale are satisfying , where is the topological dimension of the embedding space-time. Also in the action for the fractal Universe [65, 75], the standard measure can be replaced by a non-trivial measure which appears in Lebesgue-Stieltjes integrals: with , where describes the fraction of states. Here the measure is considered as general Borel on a fractal set. So in dimensions, denotes the metric space-time where is equipped with measure . Here the probability measure is a continuous function with , which is the Lebesgue-Stieltjes measure and is known as the weight function or fractal function.
In the Einstein’s gravity, the total action for the scalar field model in effective fractal space-time is given by [65]
[TABLE]
where the for the gravitational action is
[TABLE]
the scalar field action is given by
[TABLE]
and the matter action is given by
[TABLE]
Here is the determinant of the dimensionless metric , is Newton’s constant, is the Ricci scalar and the term proportional to (fractal parameter) has been added because (fractal function), like the other geometric quantity , is dynamical. Also is the Lagrangian density for scalar field , is the kinetic term, is the matter Lagrangian.
In the general form of non-canonical scalar field model, the Lagrangian density can be expressed as [58, 63]
[TABLE]
where is the arbitrary function and is the corresponding potential for the non-canonical scalar field . For and , it reduces to usual canonical scalar field Lagrangian. For and , we get the phantom scalar field model. For , it reduces to particular form of general non-canonical scalar field model [55].
The expressions for the energy density and pressure associated with the non-canonical scalar field are given by
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
Now we consider the line-element for -dimensional non-flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe as
[TABLE]
where is the scale factor and is the curvature scalar.
Taking the variation of the action given in (1) with respect to the -dimensional FRW metric , we obtain the Friedmann equations in a fractal universe as [65, 73]
[TABLE]
and
[TABLE]
where is the Hubble parameter and \hbox{\hbox to0.0pt{\hss}\sqcap}v (where \hbox to0.0pt{\sqcup\hss}\sqcap is the D’Alembertian operator) is defined by
[TABLE]
which can be simplified to the following form:
[TABLE]
Here the total energy density is and total pressure is where and are respectively energy density and pressure for matter. The continuity equation for fractal Universe is given by
[TABLE]
Since the fractal function is time dependent, so we can choose the power law form of of in terms of the scale factor as where and are positive constants [70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76]. The parameter is related to the Hausdorff dimension of the physical space-time. So the equations (9), (10) and (13) reduce to
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
and
[TABLE]
Now we assume that the matter and scalar field are separately conserved. So the conservation equations for matter and scalar field are given by
[TABLE]
and
[TABLE]
Solving equation (17), we get the expression of energy density of matter as
[TABLE]
where is the present value of the energy density, is the constant equation of state parameter for matter and is the redshift (choosing ).
From equations (6) and (7), we obtain the the potential and as in the following forms:
[TABLE]
and
[TABLE]
Now we obtain the equation of state parameter for scalar field as
[TABLE]
Now integrating equation (18), we obtain [63]
[TABLE]
where is the present value of energy density for scalar field. To solve the scalar field , we assume [63]
[TABLE]
where is constant. In ref [63], the authors have assumed and studied the features of the model. From equation (21), we obtain
[TABLE]
where is the present value of . From equation (20), we obtain the potential function as
[TABLE]
From equation (14), we obtain [63]
[TABLE]
where is the present value of the Hubble parameter, , and and are present value of the density parameters of matter, scalar field and curvature scalar respectively satisfying . The deceleration parameter can be written as
[TABLE]
Since expression of is given in equation (27), so can be expressed in term of analytically. Now we see that the functions completely depend on the EoS parameter function with number of constant parameters. In the next subsections, we will consider different well known parameterization forms of and investigate the natures of Hubble parameter, deceleration parameter, scalar field and its potential in different models.
2.1 Model I : Linear Parameterization
The equation of state parameter for linear parametrization is [77] , where and are constants in which represents the present value of . The energy density of the model then gives rise to
[TABLE]
From equation (27), the Hubble parameter can be expressed as
[TABLE]
2.2 Model II : Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL) Parameterization
In the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL) Parameterization model, the equation of state parameter is given by [78, 79] . Here again and are constants in which represents the present value of . With these, the expressions of energy density becomes
[TABLE]
From equation (27), the Hubble parameter can be written as
[TABLE]
2.3 Model III : Jassal-Bagla-Padmanabhan (JBP) Parameterization
For the Jassal-Bagla-Padmanabhan (JBP) Parameterization model, the equation of state parameter is [80] , where and are constants in which represents the present value of . The following expression is subsequently obtained as
[TABLE]
From equation (27), the Hubble parameter can be written as
[TABLE]
2.4 **Model IV: Efstathiou
parametrization**
Here, in Efstathiou parametrization model, the equation of state parameter takes the form [81, 82] , where again and are constants in which represents the present value of . This gives rise to the following expression
[TABLE]
From equation (27), the Hubble parameter can be written as
[TABLE]
3 Observational Data Analysis Technique
In this section, we shall discuss the mechanism for fitting the theoretical models with the recent observational data sets from the type Ia supernova (SN Ia), the baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data survey.
3.1 Data Sets
SNIa data set: Here we assume 580 data points of type Ia supernovae with redshift ranging from 0.015 to 1.414. Using this data set, the function is given by [63, 83]
[TABLE]
where
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
and
[TABLE]
Here the distance modulus for any SNIa at a redshift is given by
[TABLE]
where is a nuisance parameter which should be marginalized. Also represents the theoretical distance modulus, while is the theoretical distance modulus and is the standard error associated with the data point and is the normalized Hubble parameter.
SNIa + BAO data set: Eisenstein et al [84] proposed the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) peak parameter. The BAO signal has been directly detected at a scale 100 MPc by SDSS survey. We shall investigate the parameters of the prescribed models using the BAO peak joint analysis for the redshift which has the range where . For the SDSS data sample, is called the typical redshift which has been used in the early times [85]. The BAO peak parameter can be defined in the following form:
[TABLE]
where
[TABLE]
Using SDSS data set [84], the value of is for flat model of the FRW universe. Now for BAO analysis, the function can be written as in the following form
[TABLE]
SNIa + BAO + CMB data set: For Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the shift parameter of CMB power spectrum peak is given by [86, 87]
[TABLE]
where is the value of the redshift at the surface of last scattering. The WMAP data gives the value at the redshift . For CMB measurement, the function can be defined as
[TABLE]
Hubble data set: Here we use the observed Hubble data set by Stern et al [88] at different redshifts at 12 data points [89, 90]. The function is given by
[TABLE]
where the redshift of these data falls in the region .
The total joint data analysis (SNIa+BAO+CMB+Hubble) for the function is defined by
[TABLE]
The best fit values of the model parameters can be determined by minimizing the corresponding chi-square value which is equivalent to the maximum likelihood analysis.
3.2 Data Fittings and Numerical Results
Model I (Linear): For this model, using SNIa+BAO+CMB+Hubble joint analysis, we found the minimum value of and the best fit values of the parameters and where we have fixed the other parameters and km s*-1* MPc*-1*. We have plotted the contours of () in figure 1 for different confidence levels 66% (solid, blue), 90% (dashed, red) and 99% (dashed, black). Now taking best fit values of the parameters and , we have drawn the Hubble parameter vs redshift in figure 2 and the deceleration parameter vs in figure 3. We have seen that the Hubble parameter and deceleration parameter decrease over the expansion of time. The deceleration parameter has a sign flip from positive to negative, so our model generates deceleration phase to acceleration phase of the Universe. Also at the present value of , the deceleration parameter is negative, so at present our Universe is undergoing the acceleration phase. The function , non-canonical scalar field and its potential have been drawn in figures 4 - 6 respectively. We have seen that and increase as decreases but first increases and then decreases as decreases. Also and in terms of scalar field have been drawn in figures 7 and 8 respectively. Here increases but first increases and then decreases as increases.
Model II (CPL): Due to joint analysis of SNIa+BAO+CMB+Hubble, we have found the minimum value of and the best fit values of the parameters and where we have fixed the other parameters and km s*-1* MPc*-1*. We have plotted the contours of the parameters () in figure 9 for different confidence levels 66% (solid, blue), 90% (dashed, red) and 99% (dashed, black). Now taking best fit values of the parameters and , we have drawn the Hubble parameter vs redshift in figure 10 and the deceleration parameter vs in figure 11. We have seen that the Hubble parameter first decreases and then increases and deceleration parameter decreases over the evolution of the Universe. The deceleration parameter has a sign flip from positive to negative levels. The function , non-canonical scalar field and its potential have been drawn in figures 12 - 14 respectively. We have seen that first increases and thereafter decreases and increase as decreases but first decreases and then increases as decreases. Also and in terms of scalar field have been drawn in figures 15 and 16 respectively. Here sharply increases but decreases as increases.
Model III (JBP): For this model, by investigating the SNIa+BAO+CMB+Hubble joint analysis, we have found the minimum value of and the best fit values of the parameters and where we have fixed the other parameters and km s*-1* MPc*-1*. We have plotted the contours of () in figure 17 for different confidence levels 66% (solid, blue), 90% (dashed, red) and 99% (dashed, black). Now taking best fit values of the parameters and , we have drawn the Hubble parameter vs redshift in figure 18 and the deceleration parameter vs in figure 19. We have seen that the Hubble parameter first decreases and then increases and deceleration parameter decreases as decreases. The deceleration parameter has a sign flip from positive to negative and passes phantom barrier. The function , non-canonical scalar field and its potential have been drawn in figures 20 - 22 respectively. We have seen that and increase as decreases but first decreases and then sharply increases as decreases. Also and in terms of scalar field have been drawn in figures 23 and 24 respectively. Here sharply increases but decreases as increases.
Model IV (Efstathiou): Using SNIa+BAO+CMB+Hubble joint analysis, we have found the minimum value of and the best fit values of the parameters and where we have fixed the other parameters and km s*-1* MPc*-1*. We have plotted the contours of () in figure 25 for different confidence levels 66% (solid, blue), 90% (dashed, red) and 99% (dashed, black). Now taking best fit values of the parameters and , we have drawn the Hubble parameter vs redshift in figure 26 and the deceleration parameter vs in figure 27. We have seen that the Hubble parameter first decreases and thereafter slightly increases and deceleration parameter decreases and crosses the phantom barrier. The function , non-canonical scalar field and its potential have been drawn in figures 28 - 30 respectively. We have seen that first increases and then slightly decreases and increase as decreases but first decreases and then sharply increases as decreases. Also and in terms of scalar field have been drawn in figures 31 and 32 respectively. Here sharply increases but decreases as increases.
4 Discussions and Concluding Remarks
In this work, we have studied non-canonical scalar field model in the non-flat -dimensional fractal Universe on the condition that the matter and scalar field are separately conserved. To get the solutions of potential , scalar field , function , densities, Hubble parameter and deceleration parameter, the fractal function has been chosen in the form . In the Lagrangian for general form of non-canonical scalar field model, the kinetic term and the function has been suitable chosen in the form . For , the non-canonical scalar field model has been discussed in ref [63]. We have chosen four types of parametrizations forms of equation of state parameter . We have analyzed best fit values of the unknown parameters () of the parametrizations models due to the joint data analysis (SNIa+BAO+CMB+Hubble). Since we have interested to consider the -dimensional fractal Universe, so for instance, for graphical representations, we have assumed which is higher than 4-dimensions and analyzed the physical parameters in this respect. To get graphical analysis, throughout the paper, we have chosen all other parameters, and km s*-1* MPc*-1*. For model I, the the best fit values of the parameters are obtained as . For model II, the the best fit values of the parameters are . For model III, the the best fit values of the parameters are and also for model IV, the the best fit values of the parameters are obtained as . We have also plotted the contours of () for different confidence levels 66%, 90% and 99% for all these models. For all of the parametrized models, we have shown that the deceleration parameter undergoes a smooth transition from its deceleration phase () to an acceleration phase (). For all the models, we have shown in graphically that the potential function always decreases and the function always increases as increases.
Acknowledgement
The author UD is thankful to IUCAA, Pune, India for warm hospitality where part of the work was carried out. The work of KB was partially supported by the JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP25800136 and Competitive Research Funds for Fukushima University Faculty (18RI009).
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