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Null Energy Condition Violation and Classical Stability in the Bianchi I Metric

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-05 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The stability of isotropic cosmological solutions in the Bianchi I model is considered. We prove that the stability of isotropic solutions in the Bianchi I metric for a positive Hubble parameter follows from their stability in the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric. This result is applied to models inspired by string field theory, which violate the null energy condition. Examples of stable isotropic solutions are presented. We also consider the k-essence model and analyse the stability of solutions of the form Φ(t)=t\Phi(t)=t.

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@article{arxiv.0903.5264,
  title  = {Null Energy Condition Violation and Classical Stability in the Bianchi I Metric},
  author = {Irina Ya. Aref'eva and Nikolay V. Bulatov and Liudmila V. Joukovskaya and Sergey Yu. Vernov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.5264},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

27 pages, references added, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D