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    No evidence for the evolution of mass density power-law index γ\gamma from strong gravitational lensing observation

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    In this paper, we consider the singular isothermal sphere lensing model that has a spherically symmetric power-law mass distribution ρtot(r)rγ\rho_{tot}(r)\sim r^{-\gamma}. We investigate whether the mass density power-law index γ\gamma is cosmologically evolutionary by using the strong gravitational lensing (SGL) observation, in combination with other cosmological observations. We also check whether the constraint result of γ\gamma is affected by the cosmological model, by considering several simple dynamical dark energy models. We find that the constraint on γ\gamma is mainly decided by the SGL observation and independent of the cosmological model, and we find no evidence for the evolution of γ\gamma from the SGL observation.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
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