Pole Dark Energy

TL;DR

This paper investigates pole kinetic terms in dark energy models, revealing their potential to produce observationally consistent equations of state and linking them to swampland criteria, thus offering a novel approach to dark energy theory.

Contribution

It introduces pole kinetic terms into dark energy models, connecting thawing and freezing behaviors and demonstrating their observational viability and theoretical implications.

Findings

Models achieve $w(z)<-0.9$ with simple potentials.

Pole kinetic terms link thawing and freezing dark energy models.

Enhanced plateau behaviors suggest superattractor-like dynamics.

Abstract

Theories with a pole in the kinetic term have been used to great effect in studying inflation, owing to their quantum stability and attractor properties. We explore the use of such pole kinetic terms in dark energy theories, finding an interesting link between thawing and freezing models, and the possibility of enhanced plateaus with ``superattractor''-like behavior. We assess the observational viability of pole dark energy, showing that simple models can give dark energy equation of state evolution with $w(z)<-0.9$ even for potentials that could not normally achieve this easily. The kinetic term pole also offers an interesting perspective with respect to the swampland criteria for such observationally viable dark energy models.