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We study the phase space of spatially homogeneous and isotropic cosmology in general scalar-tensor theories. A reduction to a two-dimensional phase space is performed when possible-in these situations the phase space is usually a…

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We explore the dynamics of pure scalar fields rolling on an exponential potential in the absence of any additional background fluid and demonstrate the existence of self-tracking solutions in which the self-perturbations of the scalar field…

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We review the role of fluids in cosmology by first introducing them in General Relativity and then by applying them to a FRW Universe's model. We describe how relativistic and non-relativistic components evolve in the background dynamics.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-24 Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota , Jaime Klapp

We investigate cosmological solutions of the chameleon model with a non-minimal coupling between the matter and the scalar field through a conformal factor with gravitational strength. By considering the spatially flat FLRW metric and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Raziyeh Zaregonbadi , Nasim Saba , Mehrdad Farhoudi

We study multidimensional cosmological models with a higher-dimensional product manifold, that consists of spherical and flat spaces, in the presence of a minimal free scalar field. Dynamical behaviour of the model is analyzed both in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Baukh Victor

We consider a cosmology with a non-compact nonlinear sigma model.The target space is of de-Sitter type and four scalar fields are introduced.The potential is absent but cosmological constant term $\Lambda$ is added. One of the scalar fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-19 Joohan Lee , Tae Hoon Lee , Taeyoon Moon , Phillial Oh

We investigate the dynamics of the recently proposed model of assisted inflation. In this model an arbitrary number of scalar fields with exponential potentials evolve towards an inflationary scaling solution, even if each of the individual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 Karim A. Malik , David Wands

In this paper, we investigate the role of scalar field potentials in the dynamical evolution of the Universe. A gravity theory with a non-minimally coupled scalar field with torsion in the geometrical action simulating effective dark energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-05 B. Mishra , S. A. Kadam , S. K. Tripathy

As an alternative to the paradigm of slow roll inflation, we propose an extended scenario of the matter bounce cosmology in which the Universe has experienced a quasi-matter contracting phase with a variable background equation of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-04 Jaume de Haro , Yi-Fu Cai

We study an analytical solution to the Einstein's equations in 2+1-dimensions. The space-time is dynamical and has a line symmetry. The matter content is a minimally coupled, massless, scalar field. Depending on the value of certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 G. Oliveira-Neto

A complete model of cosmological evolution of a classical scalar field with the Higgs potential is studied and simulated on a computer without assumption that the Hubble constant is nonnegative. The corresponding dynamical system is…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Yu. G. Ignat'ev , A. R. Samigullina

Considering the Friedmann--Lema\^{i}tre--Robertson--Walker (FLRW) metric and the Einstein scalar field system as an underlying gravitational model to construct fractional cosmological models has interesting implications in both classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 S. M. M. Rasouli , S. Cheraghchi , P. V. Moniz

A new cosmological scenario driven by a slow rolling homogeneous scalar field whose exponential potential $V(\Phi)$ has a quadratic dependence on the field $\Phi$ in addition to the standard linear term is discussed. The derived equation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. C. Carvalho , J. S. Alcaniz , J. A. S. Lima , R. Silva

We explore inflationary cosmology in a theory where there are two scalar fields which non-minimally couple to the Ricci scalar and an additional $R^2$ term, which breaks the conformal invariance. Particularly, we investigate the slow-roll…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-10 Kazuharu Bamba , Sergei D. Odintsov , Petr V. Tretyakov

We study the cosmological evolution of scalar fields that arise from a phase transition at some energy scale $\Lm_c$. We focus on negative power potentials given by $V=c\Lm_c^{4+n}\phi^{-n}$ and restrict the cosmological viable values of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. de la Macorra , C. Stephan-Otto

The most recent cosmological data point in the direction of a cosmological constant dominated universe. A suitable candidate for providing the required acceleration is a rolling scalar field named ``quintessence''. We address the issue of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesca Rosati

This study explores the dynamics and phase-space behavior of a multi-component dark energy model, where the dark sector consists of a minimally coupled canonical scalar field and the cosmological constant, using a dynamical system analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Prasanta Sahoo , Nandan Roy , Himadri Shekhar Mondal

We derive generic equations for a vector field driving the evolution of flat homogeneous isotropic universe and give a comparison with a scalar filed dynamics in the cosmology. Two exact solutions are shown as examples, which can serve to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. V. Kiselev

The cosmological history and evolution are examined for gravitational models with interaction in the dark sector of the universe. In particular, we consider the dark energy to be described by a phantom scalar field and the dark matter $\rho…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-11 Andronikos Paliathanasis , Amlan Halder , Genly Leon

In quintessence scalar field theories, the presence of scaling solutions are important during the radiation and matter epoch due to having their attractor character. Usually, it is assumed that the initial conditions of the quintessence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-24 Jaume Haro , Jaume Amorós , Supriya Pan