Inverse Power Law Quintessence with Non-Tracking Initial Conditions

Details Inverse Power Law Quintessence with Non-Tracking Initial Conditions Inverse Power Law Quintessence with Non-Tracking Initial Conditions

2003-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302167v1

Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 083517

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

RevTEX4, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.68.083517

A common property of popular models of quintessence dark energy is the convergence to a common solution from a large range of the initial conditions. We re-examine the popular inverse power-law model of quintessence (where the common solution is dubbed as the 'tracker') with particular attention to the initial conditions for the field and their influence on the evolution. We find that previously derived limits on the parameters of the potential in this model are valid only in a range of initial conditions. A reasonably sharp boundary lies where the initial energy density of the scalar field is equal to that of the background radiation component. An initial quintessence energy density above this equipartition value lead to a solution that will not have joined the tracker solution by the present epoch. These non-tracker solutions possess the property that their present equation of state is very compatible with the observed bounds and independent of the exponent of the potential.

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