Scalar fields in an anisotropic closed universe - art. no. 023501

We study in this article a class of homogeneous, but anisotropic cosmologic al models in which shear viscosity is included. Within the matter content w e consider a component (the quintessence component) determined by the baryo tropic equations of state, p = alpha rho, with alpha < 0. We establish cond itions under which a closed axisymmetrical cosmological model may look flat at low redshift.