The dynamical system approach to scalar field cosmology (Q4954142)

The scalar fields are important in astro-particle physics. In the present paper, dynamical system approach has been used to study spatially flat FLRW universe on scalar field back ground, especially when the scalar field couples non-minimally to the Ricci curvature of spacetime, with arbitrary coupling constant and with arbitrary self-interaction potential and non-existence of chaos in the evolution of universe have been demonstrated. The phase space of the dynamical system has been studied and the regions inaccessible to the evolution are found. The topology of the forbidden regions, their dependence on the parameters, the fixed points, their stability character and the asymptotic behavior of the parameters, the fixed points, their stability character and the asymptotic behavior of the solutions are studied. New attractors are found in addition to those known in case of minimal coupling. Some exact solutions are presented and their implications for inflation are discussed. This paper investigates scalar field cosmology for both minimal and non-minimal couplings of the scalar field with a particular emphasis on conformal coupling. Here the equation of state of the scalar field is not prescribed a priori, but is deduced self consistently together with the solution of the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations in the presence of a given scalar field potential.