Applications of scalar attractor solutions to Cosmology
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We develop a framework to study the phase space of a system consisting of a scalar field rolling down an arbitrary potential with varying slope and a background fluid, in a cosmological setting. We give analytical approximate solutions of the field evolution and discuss applications of its features to the issues of quintessence, moduli stabilisation and quintessential inflation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0107321,
title = {Applications of scalar attractor solutions to Cosmology},
author = {S. C. C. Ng and N. J. Nunes and F. Rosati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0107321},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
9 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in PRD