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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 78, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.123525
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- Department of Energy [DE-FG05-85ER40226]
We examine hilltop quintessence models, in which the scalar field is rolling near a local maximum in the potential, and w approximate to-1. We first derive a general equation for the evolution of phi in the limit where w approximate to-1. We solve this equation for the case of hilltop quintessence to derive w as a function of the scale factor; these solutions depend on the curvature of the potential near its maximum. Our general result is in excellent agreement (delta w less than or similar to 0.5%) with all of the particular cases examined. It works particularly well (delta w less than or similar to 0.1%) for the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson potential. Our expression for w(a) reduces to the previously-derived slow-roll result of Sen and Scherrer in the limit where the curvature goes to zero. Except for this limiting case, w(a) is poorly fit by linear evolution in a.
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