Sunday, November 4, 2012

1211.0219 (Wenzhong Liu et al.)

The quintessence field as a perfect cosmic fluid of constant pressure    [PDF]

Wenzhong Liu, Jun Ouyang, Huanxiong Yang
We study the cosmology of a quintessence scalar field which is equivalent to a non-barotropic perfect fluid of constant pressure. The coincidence problem is alleviated by such a quintessence equation-of-state that interpolates between plateau of zero at large redshifts and plateau of minus one as the redshift approaches to zero. The quintessence field is neither a unified dark matter nor a mixture of cosmological constant and cold dark matter, because the quintessence density contrasts decay monotonously on sub-horizon scales and the squared sound speeds of quintessence perturbations do not vanish. What a role does the quintessence play is dynamic dark energy. Though the clustering of quintessence decays drastically, it could remarkably impact the growth rate of the density perturbations of non-relativistic matters at early stage.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0219

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