Quintessence  

In General > s.a. cosmology; dark energy; fine-structure constant; relativistic cosmological models.
* Idea: A possibly time-varying, inhomogenous cosmological scalar field with canonical kinetic terms and negative pressure, rolling down a potential, that may be responsible for the acceleration of the universe.
* Issue: How can it be distinguished from a cosmological constant? Or another field like a Chaplygin gas?

And Cosmology > s.a. dark matter; FRW models; Quintom; Unparticles.
@ General references: Crooks et al MPLA(01)ap/00 [cmb]; Chernin et al PLA(02)ap/01 [solutions]; Yahiro et al PRD(02)ap/01 [constraints]; Faraoni IJMPD(02)ap/01 [acceleration and non-minimal coupling]; González-Díaz NPB(01); Mathews et al ap/02-in; Gardner NPB(05)ap/04 [model comparison]; Fang et al IJMPD(06) [vs non-linear Born-Infeld scalar]; Martin MPLA(08)-a0803-in [rev].
@ Vs cosmological constant: Binétruy IJTP(00); Doran & Wetterich ap/02-in; Melchiorri & Odman ap/02-in; Chongchitnan & Efstathiou PRD(07)-a0705.
@ And observational cosmology: Gerke & Efstathiou MNRAS(02)ap [parameters]; Rosati PLB(03) [and dark matter]; Colombo & Gervasi JCAP(06)ap; La Vacca & Kristiansen JCAP(09).
@ Inflation: Faraoni PRD(00)gq; Gunzig et al PRD(01)gq/00; Martin & Musso PRD(05)ap/04.
@ And supergravity: Brax & Martin PLB(99)ap, ap/00-in; Copeland et al PRD(00).
@ From brane cosmology: González-Díaz PLB(00); Maeda PRD(01)ap/00; Mizuno & Maeda PRD(01)hp.
@ From Brans-Dicke: Banerjee & Pavón CQG(01)gq/00; Sen & Seshadri IJMPD(03)gq/00; Chakraborty et al MPLA(03).

References and Related Topics > s.a. duality.
@ II: Caldwell & Steinhardt pw(00)nov.
@ General: Carroll PRL(98)ap; Huey et al PRD(99)ap/98; Huterer & Turner PRD(99)ap/98; Amendola PRD(00)ap/99, Chiba PRD(99)gq [matter coupling]; Di Pietro & Demaret IJMPD(01)gq/99 [scalar pot]; Brax & Martin PRD(00)ap/99 [and quantum field theory corrections]; Zlatev et al PRL(99) [tracker field]; Steinhardt et al PRD(99) [tracker solutions]; Sahni CQG(02)ap [rev]; Linder GRG(08)-a0704 [dynamics].
@ Scalar-tensor gravity: Bartolo & Pietroni PRD(00)hp/99; Esposito-Farèse in(02)gq/00.
@ Other models: de la Macorra & Piccinelli PRD(00)hp/99; Perrotta et al PRD(00)ap/99 [extended]; Sahni & Wang PRD(00)ap/99; Chimento et al gq/99-in [inhomogeneous]; Riazuelo & Uzan PRD(00)ap [with scalar and grav rad]; Signore NCB(01) [negative curvature]; Zimdahl et al PLB(01)ap [with cold dark matter]; Bento et al PRD(02)ap/01 [2 fields]; Cardenas et al PRD(03)ap/02 [both quintessence and cosmological constant]; Wetterich PRL(03)ht/02 [conformal fixed point, cosmological constant]; Svrcek ht/06 [axions from string theory].
@ Phenomenology: Cooray & Huterer ApJL(99)ap; Wang et al ApJ(00)ap/99; Barger & Marfatia PLB(01)ap/00 [vs k-essence]; Wetterich PLB(04) [parametrization of equation of state].
@ And galactic dynamics: Matos & Guzman AdP(00)ap; Arbey et al PRD(01)ap, PRD(02)ap/01 [galaxy halos].
@ And particle physics: Rosati hp/00-in [inflaton]; Chung et al PLB(03).
@ Variations: Boyle et al PLB(02), Banerjee & Das ASS(06)gq/05 [spintessence]; Chugreev et al TMP(07)gq/06 [in relativistic theory of gravity]; > s.a. K-Essence.


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