Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2002-06-28
Class.Quant.Grav. 19 (2002) 5435-5448
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
8 pages, latex with revtex, 9 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/19/21/309
We present a phase-plane analysis of cosmologies containing a scalar field $\phi$ with an exponential potential $V \propto \exp(-\lambda \kappa \phi)$ where $\kappa^2 = 8\pi G$ and $V$ may be positive or negative. We show that power-law kinetic-potential scaling solutions only exist for sufficiently flat ($\lambda^2<6$) positive potentials or steep ($\lambda^2>6$) negative potentials. The latter correspond to a class of ever-expanding cosmologies with negative potential. However we show that these expanding solutions with a negative potential are to unstable in the presence of ordinary matter, spatial curvature or anisotropic shear, and generic solutions always recollapse to a singularity. Power-law kinetic-potential scaling solutions are the late-time attractor in a collapsing universe for steep negative potentials (the ekpyrotic scenario) and stable against matter, curvature or shear perturbations. Otherwise kinetic-dominated solutions are the attractor during collapse (the pre big bang scenario) and are only marginally stable with respect to anisotropic shear.
Heard Imogen P. C.
Wands David
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