Quintessence, cosmic coincidence, and the cosmological constant

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 896-899

  Zlatev, Ivaylo ^a   Wang, Limin ^a   Steinhardt, Paul J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001544612     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.896     Document Type: Article

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