Stable contraction in Brans-Dicke cosmology
arXiv:1811.09625 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2019/05/040
Abstract
Contracting Universe (including bouncing models) solution generally depends on the initial conditions and hence possesses an extreme fine-tuning problem. In order to probe the stability of those solutions, in this work, we consider the Brans-Dicke theory with the power law potential in the presence of an additional barotropic matter in the homogeneous and isotropic background. We study the phase space and obtain critical points. We find that the quadratic potential is a special case where one of the solutions always gives rise to de-Sitter solution in all conformally connected frame. We generalize the condition for arbitrary power law potential and find that contracting Universe solution can indeed lead to an attractor solution. In doing so, we also provide an example of a matter contracting Universe that leads to near scale-invariant spectra and study the behavior near the fixed point. In the vicinity of this point, the system behaves as the Universe contains three different types of matter. Amongst them, with time, energy densities of two effective fluids decay down and only the leading order solution survives. Therefore, the non-minimal coupling can address and solve the problem of fine-tuning of the contraction models and may open a different outlook.
arXiv comment22 pages and 5 tables, accepted in JCAP
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