Asymptotic behavior of FRW cosmologies with many scalar fields
- 21 December 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 65 (2) , 023509
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.65.023509
Abstract
The dynamical evolution of FRW cosmologies conformally coupled to a finite set of scalar fields is studied. The scalar fields interact between them and we also consider a self-interaction term. lt is proved that when and only one physical asymptotic behavior is possible: the radius of the universe expands forever. When either we have the just described behavior or the universe will ultimately collapse in a finite time. But we also give evidence that an oscillatory chaotic behavior is possible in this case if a fine-tuning between the initial conditions is satisfied.
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