Cosmological models from quintessence

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2000-04-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0004125v1

Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 023513

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, RevTex, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.62.023513

A generalized quintessence model is presented which corresponds to a richer vacuum structure that, besides a time-dependent, slowly varying scalar field, contains a varying cosmological term. From first principles we determine a number of scalar-field potentials that satisfy the constraints imposed by the field equations and conservations laws, both in the conventional and generalized quintessence models. Besides inverse-power law solutions, these potentials are given in terms of hyperbolic functions or the twelve Jacobian elliptic functions, and are all related to the luminosity distance by means of an integral equation. Integration of this equation for the different solutions leads to a large family of cosmological models characterized by luminosity distance-redshift relations. Out of such models, only four appear to be able to predict a required accelerating universe conforming to observations on supernova Ia, at large or moderate redshifts.

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