Negative potentials and collapsing universes

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Abstract: We study Friedmann--Robertson--Walker models with a perfect fluid matter source and a scalar field nonminimally coupled to matter. We prove that a general class of bounded from above potentials which fall to minus infinity as the field goes to minus infinity, forces the Hubble function to diverge to infty in a finite time. This finite-time singularity theorem is true for arbitrary coupling coefficient, provided that it is a bounded function of the scalar field.











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