Gravitational Origin of Phantom Dark Energy and Late Cosmic Acceleration.pdfVIP

a r X i v : h e p - t h / 0 6 0 5 0 1 0 v 3 3 0 M a r 2 0 0 7 GRAVITATIONAL ORIGIN OF PHANTOM DARK ENERGY AND LATE COSMIC ACCELERATION S.K.Srivastava Department of Mathematics, North Eastern Hill University, NEHU Campus,Shillong - 793022 ( INDIA ) e-mail:srivastava@nehu.ac.in ; sushil@iucaa.ernet.in Abstract Here, dark energy is obtained using dual roles of the Ricci scalar (as a physical field as well as geometry). Dark energy density, obtained in this model, mimics phantom and the derived Friedmann equation contains a term ρ2de/2λ with ρde being the dark energy density and λ, called as