scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2050841

MaRDI QIDQ4453077zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors P. J. Steinhardt

Publication date 7 March 2004

zbMATH Keywords

cold dark mattercosmological constantUniverse model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Review text

The author carefully discusses the several different models which exist in the literature under the common name of a quintessence model for the cosmic expansion. He then calculates the details for such a model where the underlying field is a real scalar field with an equation of state representing a negative pressure effectively. He shows why the quintessence field cannot be spatially homogeneous, and he shows why runaway scalar fields fulfil the sticking point theorem. This theorem states the following: if the universe has crossed the sticking point, then it will expand forever, and the scalar field becomes frozen. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1029.00077].

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