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The universe dominated by oscillating scalar with non-minimal derivative coupling to gravity

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-17 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the expansion law of the universe dominated by the oscillating scalar field with non-minimal derivative coupling to gravity as G^{\mu \nu} \partial_{\mu} \phi \partial_{\nu} \phi. In this system the Hubble parameter oscillates with a frequency of the effective mass of the scalar field, which formerly caused a difficulty in analyzing how the universe expands. We find an analytical solution for power law potentials and interpret the solution in an intuitive way by using a new invariant of the system. As a result, we find marginally accelerated expansion for the quadratic potential and no accelerated expansion for the potential with higher power.

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@article{arxiv.1309.6756,
  title  = {The universe dominated by oscillating scalar with non-minimal derivative coupling to gravity},
  author = {Ryusuke Jinno and Kyohei Mukaida and Kazunori Nakayama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.6756},
  year   = {2015}
}

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19 pages, 10 figures