Cosmological scaling solutions of nonminimally coupled scalar fields
Abstract
We study the existence and stability of cosmological scaling solutions of a nonminimally coupled scalar field evolving in either an exponential or inverse power law potential. We show that, for inverse power law potentials, there exist scaling solutions the stability of which does not depend on the coupling constant ξ. We then study the more involved case of exponential potentials and show that the scalar field will asymptotically behave as a baryotropic fluid when ξ<<1. The general case ξ<</1 is then discussed and we illustrate these results by some numerical examples.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- June 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.123510
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/9903004
- Bibcode:
- 1999PhRvD..59l3510U
- Keywords:
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- 98.80.Cq;
- Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 14 pages, Revtex, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D