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Constraints for the thawing and freezing potentials

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-10-24 v2

Abstract

We study the accelerating present universe in terms of the time evolution of the equation of state w(z)w(z) (redshift zz) due to thawing and freezing scalar potentials in the quintessence model. The values of dw/dadw/da and d2w/da2d^2w/da^2 at scale factor of a=1a = 1 are associated with two parameters of each potential. For five type scalar potentials, the scalar fields QQ and ww as function of time tt and/or zz are numerically calculated under the fixed boundary condition of w(z=0)=1+Δw(z=0)=-1+\Delta. The observational constraint wobsw_{obs} (Planck 2015) is imposed to test whether the numerical w(z)w(z) is in wobsw_{obs}. Some solutions show the thawing features in the freezing potentials. Mutually exclusive allowed regions in dw/dadw/da vs. d2w/da2d^2w/da^2 diagram are obtained in order to identify the likely scalar potential and even the potential parameters by future observational tests.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1707.02576,
  title  = {Constraints for the thawing and freezing potentials},
  author = {Tetsuya Hara and Anna Suzuki and Shogo Saka and Takuma Tanigawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.02576},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

38 pages, 21 figures, 5 tables; added references in section 1 and 6

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