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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 62, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.043521
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We explore the implications of gravitationally lensed quasistellar objects and high-redshift SNe Ia observations for spatially hat cosmological models in which a classically evolving scalar field currently dominates the energy density of the Universe. We consider two representative scalar field potentials that give rise to effective decaying Lambda (quintessence) models: pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons [V(phi) = M-4(1 + cos(phi/f))] and an inverse power-law potential [V(phi) = M(4+alpha)phi(-alpha)]. We show that a large region of parameter space is consistent with current data if Omega(m0)>0.15. On the other hand, a higher lower bound for the matter density parameter suggested by large-scale galaxy hows, Omega(m0)>0.3, considerably reduces the allowed parameter space, forcing the scalar field behavior to approach that of a cosmological constant.
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