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Scalar-tensor cosmologies: Fixed points of the Jordan frame scalar field

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 78, Issue 8, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.083530

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  1. Estonian Science Foundation [7185, JD131]
  2. Estonian Ministry for Education and Science [SF0180013s07]

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We study the evolution of homogeneous and isotropic, flat cosmological models within the general scalar-tensor theory of gravity with arbitrary coupling function and potential. After introducing the limit of general relativity we describe the details of the phase space geometry. Using the methods of dynamical systems for the decoupled equation of the Jordan frame scalar field we find the fixed points of flows in two cases: potential domination and matter domination. We present the conditions on the mathematical form of the coupling function and potential which determine the nature of the fixed points (attractor or other). There are two types of fixed points, both are characterized by cosmological evolution mimicking general relativity, but only one of the types is compatible with the Solar System parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) constraints. The phase space structure should also carry over to the Einstein frame as long as the transformation between the frames is regular which however is not the case for the latter (PPN compatible) fixed point.

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