Tracking Quintessence Would Require Two Cosmic Coincidences
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Good tracking requires that the quintessence energy fraction slowly increase while the roll λ ≡ −d lnV/κdφ slowly decreases, but is not yet truly slow-rolling. The supernova bound on the present quintessence equation of state requires either (1) a cosmological constant or other finetuned ”crawling quintessence” or (2) ”roll-over quintessence” that tracked until recently, but now became slow rolling, because of a sharp increase in potential curvature. Thus, fine-tuning is required by constant equation of state and inverse power potentials, but can be avoided by the SUGRA and Skordis-Albrecht potentials and other good trackers, provided quintessence energy domination and slow roll both began only recently. This makes the time in which we live special in two respects. [email protected] University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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