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Cosmic infinity: A dynamical system approach

arXiv:1611.03100 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2017/03/042

Abstract

Dynamical system techniques are extremely useful to study cosmology. It turns out that in most of the cases, we deal with finite isolated fixed points corresponding to a given cosmological epoch. However, it is equally important to analyse the asymptotic behaviour of the universe. On this paper, we show how this can be carried out for 3-forms model. In fact, we show that there are fixed points at infinity mainly by introducing appropriate compactifications and defining a new time variable that washes away any potential divergence of the system. The richness of 3-form models allows us as well to identify normally hyperbolic non-isolated fixed points.

19 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables. A new section added. Explanations improved. Version accepted in JCAP

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