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Nonflat time-variable dark energy cosmology

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2013-12-20 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We generalize the time-variable dark energy scalar field Φ\Phi model (Φ\PhiCDM) to nonflat space. We show that even in the space-curvature-dominated epoch the scalar field solution is a time-dependent fixed point or attractor, with scalar field energy density that grows relative to the energy density in spatial curvature. This is the first example of a physically consistent and complete model of dynamical dark energy in a nonflat geometry.

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@article{arxiv.1307.7399,
  title  = {Nonflat time-variable dark energy cosmology},
  author = {Anatoly Pavlov and Shawn Westmoreland and Khaled Saaidi and Bharat Ratra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.7399},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures

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