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A constant equation of state for quintessence ?

Elisa Di Pietro, Jacques Demaret

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9908071

Abstract

Quintessence is often invoked to explain the universe acceleration suggested by the type Ia supernovae observations. The aim of this letter is to study the validity of using a constant equation of state for quintessence models. We shall show that this hypothesis strongly constraint the form of the scalar potential.

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