The supernovae Ia data are used to analyze two general exact solutions for quintessence models. The best fit values for Ωₘ₀ are smaller than in the Λ-term model, but still acceptable. With present-day data, it is not possible to discriminate among the various situations.
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Pavlov et al. (2002) studied this question.