Cosmology with positive and negative exponential potentials

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/21/309MaRDI QIDQ4786820zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Imogen P. C. Heard, David Wands

Publication date 13 May 2003

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0206085

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointscosmologyscalar fieldsexponential potentialshear perturbationsFriedmann-Robertson-Walker modelsBianchi type I cosmologiesone-dimensional phase space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

Abstract: We present a phase-plane analysis of cosmologies containing a scalar field $phi$ with an exponential potential $Vproptoexp(-lambdakappaphi)$ where $kapp{a}^2=8piG$ and $V$ may be positive or negative. We show that power-law kinetic-potential scaling solutions only exist for sufficiently flat ($lambd{a}^2<6$) positive potentials or steep ($lambd{a}^2>6$) negative potentials. The latter correspond to a class of ever-expanding cosmologies with negative potential. However we show that these expanding solutions with a negative potential are to unstable in the presence of ordinary matter, spatial curvature or anisotropic shear, and generic solutions always recollapse to a singularity. Power-law kinetic-potential scaling solutions are the late-time attractor in a collapsing universe for steep negative potentials (the ekpyrotic scenario) and stable against matter, curvature or shear perturbations. Otherwise kinetic-dominated solutions are the attractor during collapse (the pre big bang scenario) and are only marginally stable with respect to anisotropic shear.

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