Published November 7, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Cosmological dynamics of scalar fields with O(N) symmetry

  • 1. Shanghai United Center for Astrophysics (SUCA), Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234 (China)

Description

In this paper, we study the cosmological dynamics of scalar fields with O(N) symmetry in general potentials. We compare the phase space of the dynamical systems of the quintessence and phantom and give the conditions for the existence of various attractors as well as their cosmological implications. We also show that the existence of a tracking attractor in O(N) phantom models requires the potential with Γ < 1/2, which makes the model with exponential potential possess no tracking attractor

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/21/4771/cqg4_21_001.pdf or at the Web site for the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (ISSN 1361-6382) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
21
Journal Issue
21
Journal Page Range
p. 4771-4779
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36029383
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ATTRACTORS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; O GROUPS; PHASE SPACE; SCALAR FIELDS
Descriptors DEC
DYNAMICAL GROUPS; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATTER; SPACE; SYMMETRY GROUPS