Solution

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For fixed cosmological density parameters, the redshift drift has the form . Multiplying the Hubble constant changes the vertical scale of all three sketches but leaves their zeros unchanged. Thus the drift-zero redshift is independent of at fixed density fractions. Every model has the trivial zero; only the specified mixed model has a further positive zero, . If instead physical matter and vacuum densities are held fixed while changes, their density fractions change too, so that is a different family of models.

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