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Integrable Cosmological Potentials

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-05-24 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

The problem of classification of the Einstein--Friedman cosmological Hamiltonians HH with a single scalar inflaton field φ\varphi that possess an additional integral of motion polynomial in momenta on the shell of the Friedman constraint H=0H=0 is considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of first, second, and third degree integrals are derived. These conditions have the form of ODEs for the cosmological potential V(φ)V(\varphi). In the case of linear and quadratic integrals we find general solutions of the ODEs and construct the corresponding integrals explicitly. A new wide class of Hamiltonians that possess a cubic integral is derived. The corresponding potentials are represented in a parametric form in terms of the associated Legendre functions. Six families of special elementary solutions are described and sporadic superintegrable cases are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1608.08511,
  title  = {Integrable Cosmological Potentials},
  author = {V. V. Sokolov and A. S. Sorin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.08511},
  year   = {2017}
}

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24 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures; v2: misprints corrected and references added

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