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.
Cite
@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