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Generalized Scalar Field Cosmologies: A Global Dynamical Systems Formulation

arXiv:2007.11990 · doi:10.1088/1361-6382/abc095

Abstract

Local and global phase-space descriptions and averaging methods are used to find qualitative features of solutions for the FLRW and the Bianchi I metrics in the context of scalar field cosmologies with arbitrary potentials and arbitrary couplings to matter. The stability of the equilibrium points in a phase-space as well as the dynamics in the regime where the scalar field diverges are studied. Equilibrium points that represent some solutions of cosmological interest such as: several types of scaling solutions, a kinetic dominated solution representing a stiff fluid, a solution dominated by an effective energy density of geometric origin, a quintessence scalar field dominated solution, the vacuum de Sitter solution associated to the minimum of the potential, and a non-interacting matter dominated solution are obtained. All reveal a very rich cosmological phenomenology.

This manuscript supersedes arXiv:1912.09856v4 [gr-qc]. 50 pages, 8 compound figures

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