https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-03716-9
Regular Article
Early dark energy and the screening mechanism
Department of Physics, University of Tehran, P. O. B. 14395-547, 14399-55961, Tehran, Iran
Received:
1
June
2022
Accepted:
17
January
2023
Published online:
25
January
2023
In the early Universe, dark energy may have a non-negligible contribution. If this dark energy corresponds to an early cosmological constant, it leads to a late-time huge dark energy density which is much larger than what is expected for the current expansion of the Universe. Using a conformal coupling of the quintessence to the dark matter, and based on the screening models, we propose a process to reduce the early dark energy to its ultimate value in the late time. Early and late-time dark energies can be unified in a single component, in this way.
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