Two scalar field cosmology: Conservation laws and exact solutions

Andronikos Paliathanasis and Michael Tsamparlis
Phys. Rev. D 90, 043529 – Published 25 August 2014

Abstract

We consider the two scalar field cosmology in a Friedmann Robertson Walker spatially flat spacetime where the scalar fields interact both in the kinetic part and the potential. We apply the Noether point symmetries in order to define the interaction of the scalar fields. We use the point symmetries in order to write the field equations in the normal coordinates, and we find that the Lagrangian of the field equations which admits at least three Noether point symmetries describes linear Newtonian systems. Furthermore, by using the corresponding conservation laws we find exact solutions of the field equations. Finally, we generalize our results to the case of N scalar fields interacting both in their potential and their kinematic part in a flat Friedmann Robertson Walker background.

  • Received 12 May 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.043529

© 2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Andronikos Paliathanasis1,2,* and Michael Tsamparlis3,†

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita’ di Napoli Federico II, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
  • 2INFN Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cinthia, 9, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
  • 3Faculty of Physics, Department of Astrophysics-Astronomy-Mechanics, University of Athens, Panepistemiopolis, Athens 157 83, Greece

  • *paliathanasis@na.infn.it
  • mtsampa@phys.uoa.gr

See Also

Using the Noether symmetry approach to probe the nature of dark energy

Spyros Basilakos, Michael Tsamparlis, and Andronikos Paliathanasis
Phys. Rev. D 83, 103512 (2011)

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Vol. 90, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2014

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