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Slow-Roll Dark Energy J. Richard Gott, III and Zachary Slepian arXiv.org/abs/1011.2528 The Standard Picture V 0 we are sitting at the bottom of a potential well Linde: chaotic inflation scalar field slow-rolls down potential Predicts n s


  1. Slow-Roll Dark Energy J. Richard Gott, III and Zachary Slepian arXiv.org/abs/1011.2528

  2. The Standard Picture V 0 we are sitting at the bottom of a potential well

  3. Linde: chaotic inflation scalar field slow-rolls down potential Predicts n s =.967, r=.13

  4. WMAP cosmic microwave background

  5. WMAP

  6. WMAP – Gott-Colley color scheme

  7. WMAP & INFLATION

  8. Primordial tilt & tensor/scalar ratio

  9. Our Hypothesis Dark energy is a second epoch of inflation just like the first

  10. D.E. Equation of State DEFINE W = RATIO OF PRESSURE TO ENERGY DENSITY

  11. Chevallier-PoLarski-linder Parametrization

  12. W(a) = Wo + Wa(1 – a)

  13. w for a Scalar Field model

  14. Equation of motion

  15. slow roll formula for delta w 1) First term is small compared to second. 2) velocity is small so roughly constant and Hence also .

  16. Our potential

  17. N-flation promoters: Dimopoulos et al. 2005, easther and mcallister 2006, kim and liddle 2006 n-field quintessence: kaloper and sorbo 2005, svrcek 2006

  18. cpl parametrization vs. our model

  19. slow-roll formula vs. numerical results

  20. References Dark Energy as Double N-Flation--Observational Predictions, Gott and slepian, 2011, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2528 and references therein

  21. Slow Roll Formula

  22. Slow Roll Formula

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