Constraints on inflationary solutions in the presence of shear and bulk viscosity

DOI10.1007/BF02107957zbMath0820.53073arXivgr-qc/9405009OpenAlexW1982233538MaRDI QIDQ1842087

Reza Tavakol, Peter K. S. Dunsby, Henk van Elst

Publication date: 5 September 1995

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Inflationary models and their claim to solve many of the outstanding problems in cosmology have been the subject of a great deal of debate over the last few years. A major sticking point has been the lack of both good observational and theoretical arguments to single out one particular model out of the many that solve these problems. Here we examine the degree of restrictiveness on the dynamical relationship between the cosmological scale factor and the inflation driving self-interaction potential of a minimally coupled scalar field, imposed by the condition that the scalar field is required to be real during a classical regime (the reality condition). We systema-tically look at the effects of this constraint on many of the inflationary models found in the literature within the FLRW framework, and also look at what happens when physically motivated perturbations such as shear and bulk viscosity are introduced. We find that in many cases, either the models are totally excluded or the reality condition gives rise to constraints on the scale factor and on the various parameters of the model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9405009

zbMATH Keywords

inflation world models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

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