g being the determinant of the metric,
the scalar curvature,
an arbitrary function of the dimensionless scalar field
,
the canonical kinetic energy and
is the corresponding Lagrangian density of ordinary matter. So, performing the variation of the action (
12) with respect to the metric
and
X, the field equations are obtained
where, we have assumed that
and a subscript
X denotes differentiation with respect to
X. K-essence was originally proposed as a model for inflation; and then, as a model for dark energy, along with explorations of unifying dark energy and dark matter [
52,
53].
Last set of field equations (
13) and (14) are the results of considering the scalar field
as part of the matter content,
i.e. , with the corresponding energy-momentum tensor
Also, considering the energy-momentum tensor of a barotropic perfect fluid,
with
being the four-velocity satisfying the relation
,
the energy density and
the pressure of the fluid. To simplify, we are going to consider a comoving perfect fluid, whose pressure and energy density corresponding to the energy moment tensor of the field X are
thus the barotropic parameter
for the equivalent fluid is
We are interested in the four-dimensional fractional cosmology in the scenario of k-essence within the anisotropic background, precisely the Bianchi type I, whose metric has the line element
, which can be read as
where
is the lapse function, the functions
,
and
are the corresponding scale factors in the
directions, respectively. Moreover, in the Misner’s parametrization, the radii for this anisotropic background have the explicit form
where the functions in the radii are dependent on time,
and
. In this point, we notice that the line element (
21), in the time
reads as
and employing the form of the functional
, and the following quantities
then the Equation (14) is written as ,
which can be transformed into
and in turn integrated, resulting
where
is an integration constant and has the same sign as
. In the gauge
the right side is
where
is the initial time for the
scenario in the universe. At this point, we can introduce some structure for the function
and solve the integral.
When we consider the particular mathematical structure for the function
or
with
p and
m constants, the classical solutions for the field
in quadratures are
The complete solution to the scalar field
depends strongly on the mathematical structure of the scale factor
in the
scenario in our universe. In the gauge
, these solutions are
where
and
are the initial time and the scalar field in this time for the
scenario in the universe. In what follows, we do the calculations to obtain the scale factor in some cases.