Instabilities appearing in cosmological effective field theories: when and how?

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/ACE769MaRDI QIDQ6169735zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Farbod Hassani, H. Zaag

Publication date 15 August 2023

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01055

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear partial differential equationsblow-up solutionscosmological context

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58)

Abstract: Nonlinear partial differential equations appear in many domains of physics, and we study here a typical equation which one finds in effective field theories (EFT) originated from cosmological studies. In particular, we are interested in the equation $$ in $1+1$ dimensions. It has been known for quite some time that solutions to this equation diverge in finite time, when $alpha>0$. We study the nature of this divergence as a function of the parameters $alpha>0$ and $$. The divergence does not disappear even when $$ is very large contrary to what one might believe (note that since we consider fixed initial data, $alpha$ and $$ cannot be scaled away). But it will take longer to appear as $$ increases when $alpha$ is fixed. We note that there are two types of divergence and we discuss the transition between these two as a function of parameter choices. The blowup is unavoidable unless the corresponding equations are modified. Our results extend to $3+1$ dimensions.

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