SCALAR-TENSOR COSMOLOGIES: GENERAL RELATIVITY AS A FIXED POINT OF THE JORDAN FRAME SCALAR FIELD

DOI10.1142/S0217751X09045133MaRDI QIDQ3397916zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Piret Kuusk, Laur Järv, Margus Saal

Publication date 25 September 2009

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5038

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical systemsgeneral relativity limitscalar-tensor cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We study the evolution of homogeneous and isotropic, flat cosmological models within the general scalar-tensor theory of gravity with arbitrary coupling function and potential and scrutinize its limit to general relativity. Using the methods of dynamical systems for the decoupled equation of the Jordan frame scalar field we find the fixed points of flows in two cases: potential domination and matter domination. We present the conditions on the mathematical form of the coupling function and potential which determine the nature of the fixed points (attractor or other). There are two types of fixed points, both are characterized by cosmological evolution mimicking general relativity, but only one of the types is compatible with the Solar System PPN constraints.

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