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Scalar fields and cosmological attractor solutions

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Results of a general study on the dynamics of cosmological scalar fields with arbitrary potentials are presented. Exact and approximate attractor solutions are found, with applications to quintessence, moduli stabilization and inflation.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0210445,
  title  = {Scalar fields and cosmological attractor solutions},
  author = {F. Rosati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210445},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the XVIII IAP Colloquium `On the nature of dark energy', Paris, 1-5 July 2002