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Phantoms and strange attractors in cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-04-27 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study a cosmological model of gravity coupled to three, self-interacting scalar fields, one of them with negative kinetic term. The theory has cosmological solutions described by three-dimensional quadratic autonomous equations, leading to strange attractors. The associated chaotic cosmologies exhibit highly fluctuating periods of contraction and expansion, alternating with long, steady periods in a de Sitter-like phase.

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@article{arxiv.2204.06018,
  title  = {Phantoms and strange attractors in cosmology},
  author = {Jorge G. Russo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.06018},
  year   = {2023}
}

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12 pages, 6 figures