Power-law Inflation in Spacetimes without Symmetry

Author(s)
Johannes Markus Heinzle, Alan D. Rendall
Abstract

We consider models of accelerated cosmological expansion described by the Einstein equations coupled to a nonlinear scalar field with a suitable exponential potential. We show that homogeneous and isotropic solutions are stable under small nonlinear perturbations without any symmetry assumptions. Our proof is based on results on the nonlinear stability of de Sitter spacetime and Kaluza-Klein reduction techniques.

Organisation(s)
Gravitational Physics
External organisation(s)
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert Einstein Institut)
Journal
Communications in Mathematical Physics
Volume
269
Pages
1-15
No. of pages
15
ISSN
0010-3616
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-006-0133-y
Publication date
2007
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103028 Theory of relativity
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/5e1e9c42-8141-47f1-9d82-ce3ee6df8a27