Abstract
We investigate the isotropization of the Bianchi type-VII cosmological models possessing a scalar field with an exponential potential of the form . In the case , we show that there is an open set of initial conditions in the set of anisotropic Bianchi type-VII initial data such that the corresponding cosmological models isotropize asymptotically. Hence scalar field spatially homogeneous cosmological models having an exponential potential with can isotropize to the future.
- Received 16 October 1996
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.55.5215
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