Inflation and late time acceleration designed by Stueckelberg massive
  photon
  We present a mini review of the Stueckelberg mechanism, which was proposed to
make the abelian gauge theories massive as an alternative to Higgs mechanism,
within the framework of Minkowski as well as curved spacetimes. The higher the
scale the tighter the bounds on the photon mass, which might be gained via the
Stueckelberg mechanism, may be signalling that even an extremely small mass of
the photon which cannot be measured directly could have far reaching effects in
cosmology. We present a cosmological model where Stueckelberg fields, which
consist of both scalar and vector fields, are non-minimally coupled to gravity
and the universe could go through a decelerating expansion phase sandwiched by
two different accelerated expansion phases. We discuss also the possible
anisotropic extensions of the model.
