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astro-ph2007★ 220 cited
Thawing quintessence with a nearly flat potential
Robert J. Scherrer, A. A. Sen
The thawing quintessence model with a nearly flat potential provides a natural mechanism to produce an equation of state parameter, w, close to -1 today. We examine the behavior of…
astro-ph2007★ 68 cited
The Weak Energy Condition and the Expansion History of the Universe
A. A. Sen, Robert J. Scherrer
We examine flat models containing a dark matter component and an arbitrary dark energy component, subject only to the constraint that the dark energy satisfies the weak energy cond…
astro-ph2007★ 8 cited
Radiation can never again dominate Matter in a Vacuum Dominated Universe
Lawrence M. Krauss, Robert J. Scherrer
We demonstrate that in a vacuum-energy-dominated expansion phase, surprisingly neither the decay of matter nor matter-antimatter annihilation into relativistic particles can ever c…