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Scalar field cosmologies with a generalized harmonic potential are investigated in flat and negatively curved Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker and Bianchi I metrics. An interaction between the scalar field and matter is considered.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-19 Genly Leon , Esteban González , Alfredo D. Millano , Felipe Orlando Franz Silva

A weakly coupled scalar field $\Phi$ with a simple exponential potential $V=M_P^4\exp(-\lambda\Phi/M_P)$ where $M_P$ is the reduced Planck mass, and $\lambda > 2$, has an attractor solution in a radiation or matter dominated universe in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Pedro G. Ferreira , Michael Joyce

The purpose of this work is to investigate spatially homogeneous and flat cosmological solutions of the Einstein equations coupled to a non-variational ``near-minimal'' scalar field. This coupling model represents a minimal departure from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Joshua Ritchie

This paper reviews the dynamics of an isotropic and homogeneous cosmological scalar field. A general approach to the solution of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations is developed, which does not require slow-roll or other approximations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 J. W. van Holten

FLRW equations are analyzed in a universe with a cosmic scalar background that is spatially uniform but time-varying. Some solvable potentials to the combined dynamics in such a universe are presented, that are consistent with the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-17 B. S. Balakrishna

The general k-essence Lagrangian for the existence of cosmological scaling solutions is derived in the presence of multiple scalar fields coupled to a barotropic perfect fluid. In addition to the scaling fixed point associated with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-14 Takeshi Chiba , Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

In many cases a scalar field can lead to accelerated expansion in cosmological models. This paper contains mathematical results on this subject particularly on type I Bianchi space-time. In this paper, global existence to the coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Alexis Nangue

Spherically symmetric cosmological equations in the usual FLRW coordinates are explored, with different sources. The first couples a perfect fluid with a quintessence scalar field and the second couples a perfect fluid to a tachyonic scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Das , N. Tariq , R. M. W. Woodside

An analysis of the solutions for the field equations of generalized scalar-tensor theories of gravitation is performed through the study of the geometry of the phase space and the stability of the solutions, with special interest in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. C. Souza , A. Saa

In this work, we investigate the cosmological dynamics of the $f(R, \mathcal{L}_m)$ gravity framework with a particular focus on the contributions of the scalar field. Considering a functional form that includes linear and exponential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Y. Kalpana Devi , Rahul Bhagat , B. Mishra

We study the stability of cosmological scaling solutions within the class of spatially homogeneous cosmological models with a perfect fluid subject to the equation of state p_gamma=(gamma-1) rho_gamma (where gamma is a constant satisfying 0…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. P. Billyard , A. A. Coley , R. J. van den Hoogen

In this paper, we consider spatially flat FLRW cosmological models in two contexts in an attempt to derive a set of conditions that characterize when such models exhibit oscillatory behaviour. In the first case, we consider a spatially flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-12 Ikjyot Singh Kohli

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.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Rosati

Self-consistent system of spinor, scalar and BI gravitational fields is considered. Exact solutions to the field equations in terms of volume scale of the BI metric are obtained. Einstein field equations in account of the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Bijan Saha , Todor Boyadjiev

We investigate the evolution of anisotropies in Bianchi I spacetimes within the framework of the 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet scalar field theory. The field equations are formulated using dimensionless variables, and the asymptotic dynamics are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Alex Giacomini , Chevara Hansraj , Genly Leon , Andronikos Paliathanasis

We examine homogeneous but anisotropic cosmologies in scalar-tensor gravity theories, including Brans-Dicke gravity. We present a method for deriving solutions for any isotropic perfect fluid with a barotropic equation of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Jose P. Mimoso , David Wands

We consider a system of interacting spinor and scalar fields in a gravitational field given by a Bianchi type-I cosmological model filled with perfect fluid. The interacting term in the Lagrangian is chosen in the form of derivative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-01 Bijan Saha , Todor Boyadjiev

We study cosmological models using dynamical systems and averaging methods, encompassing flat and open FLRW geometries as well as the LRS Bianchi types I, III, and V. Under mild regularity and frequency-scaling assumptions, we obtain a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Genly Leon , Claudio Michea

In this paper, we introduce a non-minimally conformally coupled scalar field and dark matter in F(T) cosmology and study their dynamics. We investigate the stability and phase space behavior of the parameters of the scalar field by choosing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-02 Mubasher Jamil , D. Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

Exact particle-like static, spherically and/or cylindrically symmetric solutions to the equations of interacting scalar and electromagnetic field system have been obtained within the scope of general relativity. In particular, we considered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 B. Saha