COSMIC SCALAR FIELDS WITH FLAT POTENTIAL

DOI10.1142/S0217732302007806zbMATH Open1083.83564arXivhep-ph/0206265MaRDI QIDQ5312337FDOQ5312337

Authors: J. W. van Holten 

Publication date: 31 August 2005

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The dynamics of cosmic scalar fields with flat potential is studied. Their contribution to the expansion rate of the universe is analyzed, and their behaviour in a simple model of phase transitions is discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0206265

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsCosmologyScalar fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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• Cosmological imprint of an energy component with general equation of state
• Natural quintessence?

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• Effective action for cosmological scalar fields at finite temperature
• Scalar field potential in Einstein-Cartan cosmology
• Cosmological Higgs fields
• Scalar field potentials for closed and open cosmological models

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