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    • Swaney, Jeffrey (Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2014-04)
      We examine models of quintessence in which a minimally-coupled scalar field phi evolves near a local extremum of its potential V ( phi) at phi_*. Assuming that (1/V )(dV/dphi) is small and w ~ -1, we Taylor expand the ...