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Quintessence dissipative superattractor cosmology

Astrophysics 2009-11-06 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate the simplest quintessence dissipative dark matter attractor cosmology characterized by a constant quintessence baryotropic index and a power--law expansion. We show a class of accelerated coincidence--solving attractor solutions converging to this asymptotic behavior. Despite its simplicity, such a ``superattractor'' regime provides a model of the recent universe that also exhibits an excellent fit to supernovae luminosity observations and no age conflict. Our best fit gives α=1.71±0.29\alpha=1.71\pm 0.29 for the power-law exponent. We calculate for this regime the evolution of density and entropy perturbations.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0101549,
  title  = {Quintessence dissipative superattractor cosmology},
  author = {Luis P. Chimento and Alejandro S. Jakubi and Norberto A. Zuccala},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0101549},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, Revtex, 2 figures. v3: Minor typos corrected