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Can Quintessence Be Natural?

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We give a brief introduction to the framework of cosmological quintessence scenarios and formulate conditions for the naturalness of the underlying field theoretical models. The quintessence lagrangian is taken to be the sum of a simple exponentialpotential and a non-canonical kinetic term. This parameterization covers most variantsof quintessence and makes the naturalness conditions particularly transparent. Several “natural” scalar models lead, for the present cosmological era, to a large fraction ofhomogeneous dark energy density and an acceleration of the scale factor as suggestedby observation.

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Hebecker, A., Wetterich, C. (2001). Can Quintessence Be Natural?. In: Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, H.V. (eds) Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56643-1_15

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