Integrable cosmological models with non-minimally coupled scalar fields

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DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/10/105003zbMATH Open1294.83018arXiv1312.3540OpenAlexW3102726242MaRDI QIDQ4979705FDOQ4979705

Giovanni Venturi, Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik, S. Yu. Vernov, E. O. Pozdeeva, Alessandro Tronconi

Publication date: 19 June 2014

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

Abstract: We obtain general solutions for some flat Friedmann universes filled with a scalar field in induced gravity models and models including the Hilbert-Einstein curvature term plus a scalar field conformally coupled to gravity. As is well known, these models are connected to minimally coupled models through the combination of a conformal transformation and a transformation of the scalar field. The explicit forms of the self-interaction potentials for six exactly solvable models are presented here. We obtain the general solution for one of the integrable models, namely, the induced gravity model with a power-law potential for the self-interaction of the scalar field. We argue that although being mathematically in a one-to-one correspondence with the solutions in the minimally coupled models, the solutions in the corresponding non-minimally coupled models are physically different. This is because the cosmological evolutions seen by an internal observer connected with the cosmic time can be quite different. The study of a few induced gravity models with particular potentials gives us an explicit example of such a difference.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3540




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