Quintessence and the accelerating universe
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Observations seem to indicate that our universe is presently accelerating due to the presence of dark energy. Quintessence represents a possible way to model the dark energy. In these proceedings, we briefly review its main properties.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0210533,
title = {Quintessence and the accelerating universe},
author = {Philippe Brax and Jerome Martin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210533},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures. Invited talk given by J. Martin at the Sf2a meeting (June 24-29, 2002, Paris)