Cosmology with a time-variable cosmological 'constant'
1988/02/01 by P. J. E. Peebles, Bharat Ratra · 1,742 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Cosmological constant #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark energy #Hubble's law #Mathematical physics #Non-standard cosmology #Physical cosmology #Physics #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #Theoretical physics
paper · doi:10.1086/185100
published in The Astrophysical Journal 325, L17 (IOP Publishing)
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Abstract
If the potential V(φ) of the scalar field that drove inflation had a power-law tail at large φ, V ~ φ-aplpha^, the mass density, ρ<SUB>phi</SUB>_, associated with φ would act like a cosmological constant that decreases with time less rapidly than the mass densities of matter and radiation. If ρ<SUB>phi</SUB>_ were appreciable at the present epoch it could help reconcile the low dynamical estimates of the mean mass density with the negligibly small space curvature preferred by inflation.
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