Eur. Phys. J. C (2014) 74: 3172
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3172-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

DGP cosmological model with generalized Ricci dark energy

¹ Departamento de Matemáticas y Ciencia de la Computación, Universidad de Santiago, Estación Central, Santiago, Chile
² Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
³ Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencia, Universidad de Santiago, Casilla 307, Santiago, Chile
⁴ Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Avenida Brasil 2950, Valparaiso, Chile
⁵ Departamento de Ciencias Físicas, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad de La Frontera, Casilla 54-D, Temuco, Chile

^* e-mail: yeremy.aguilera@usach.cl

Received: 12 June 2014
Accepted: 6 November 2014
Published online: 28 November 2014

Abstract

The brane-world model proposed by Dvali, Gabadadze and Porrati (DGP) leads to an accelerated universe without cosmological constant or other form of dark energy for the positive branch . For the negative branch we have investigated the behavior of a model with an holographic Ricci-like dark energy and dark matter, where the IR cutoff takes the form , being the Hubble parameter and , positive constants of the model. We perform an analytical study of the model in the late-time dark energy dominated epoch, where we obtain a solution for , where is the leakage scale of gravity into the bulk, and conditions for the negative branch on the holographic parameters and , in order to hold the conditions of weak energy and accelerated universe. On the other hand, we compare the model versus the late-time cosmological data using the latest type Ia supernova sample of the Joint Light-curve Analysis (JLA), in order to constrain the holographic parameters in the negative branch, as well as in the positive branch, where is the Hubble constant. We find that the model has a good fit to the data and that the most likely values for lie in the permitted region found from an analytical solution in a dark energy dominated universe. We give a justification to use a holographic cutoff in 4D for the dark energy in the 5-dimensional DGP model. Finally, using the Bayesian Information Criterion we find that this model is disfavored compared with the flat CDM model.