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Quintessence and the accelerating universe

2002/10/24 by Philippe Brax, Jerome Martin, Jérôme Martin +2
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0210533

4 pages, 3 figures. Invited talk given by J. Martin at the Sf2a meeting (June 24-29, 2002, Paris)

arxiv created 2002/10/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Observations seem to indicate that our universe is presently accelerating due to the presence of dark energy. Quintessence represents a possible way to model the dark energy. In these proceedings, we briefly review its main properties.

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