Published March 2020 | Version v1
Journal article

Cosmological evolution of two-scalar fields cosmology in the Jordan frame

  • 1. Instituto de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia (Chile)
  • 2. Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta (Chile)
  • 3. Institute of Systems Science, Durban University of Technology (South Africa)
  • 4. Department of Mathematics, Presidency University, Kolkata (India)

Description

In the present article we study the cosmological evolution of a two-scalar field gravitational theory defined in the Jordan frame. Specifically, we assume one of the scalar fields to be minimally coupled to gravity, while the second field which is the Brans-Dicke scalar field is nonminimally coupled to gravity and also coupled to the other scalar field. In the Einstein frame this theory reduces to a two-scalar field theory where the two fields can interact only in the potential term, which means that the quintom theory is recovered. The cosmological evolution is studied by analyzing the equilibrium points of the field equations in the Jordan frame. We find that the theory can describe the cosmological evolution in large scales, while inflationary solutions are also provided.

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7730-3

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online)
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 1-31
ISSN
1434-6052

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