Role of a chameleon field in the presence of variable modified Chaplygin gas in Brans–Dicke theory

Abstract

In this work, we have considered the Friedmann–Robertson–Walker model of the universe for Brans–Dicke (BD) theory with a BD scalar field as a chameleon field. First we have transformed the field equations and conservation equation from Jordan’s frame to Einstein’s frame. We have shown that, in the presence of a variable modified Chaplygin gas (VMCG), the potential function V and another analytic function f always increase with respect to the BD–chameleon scalar field [Formula: see text] but decrease with time t for pure Chaplygin gas, modified Chaplygin gas, and VMCG models.