Dynamical systems in perturbative scalar field cosmology

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABB73AzbMATH Open1479.83230arXiv2006.00800OpenAlexW3084871739MaRDI QIDQ5162409FDOQ5162409

Authors: Artur Alho, Claes Uggla, John Wainwright 

Publication date: 2 November 2021

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

Abstract: We derive a new emph{regular} dynamical system on a 3-dimensional emph{compact} state space describing linear scalar perturbations of spatially flat Robertson-Walker geometries for relativistic models with a minimally coupled scalar field with an exponential potential. This enables us to construct the global solution space, illustrated with figures, where known solutions are shown to reside on special invariant sets. We also use our dynamical systems approach to obtain new results about the comoving and uniform density curvature perturbations. Finally we show how to extend our approach to more general scalar field potentials. This leads to state spaces where the state space of the models with an exponential potential appears as invariant boundary sets, thereby illustrating their role as building blocks in a hierarchy of increasingly complex cosmological models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00800

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zbMATH Keywords

dynamical systemsperturbationscosmologyinflationquintessencescalar field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) More general nonquantum field theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S20)

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