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Attractors and Isocurvature Perturbations in Quintessence Models

Astrophysics 2009-11-06 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate the evolution of cosmological perturbations in scenarios with a quintessence scalar field, both analytically and numerically. In the tracking regime for quintessence, we find the long wavelength solutions for quintessential perturbations. We discuss the possibility of isocurvature modes generated by the quintessence sector and their impact on observations.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0101014,
  title  = {Attractors and Isocurvature Perturbations in Quintessence Models},
  author = {L. R. Abramo and F. Finelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0101014},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, 7 figures; added appendix and 2 new figures; version submitted to Phys. Rev. D