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Dynamical systems analysis of anisotropic cosmologies in Rn-gravity

Naureen Goheer1, Jannie A Leach1 and Peter K S Dunsby1,2

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In this paper, we study the dynamics of orthogonal spatially homogeneous Bianchi cosmologies in Rn-gravity. We construct a compact state space by dividing the state space into different sectors. We perform a detailed analysis of the cosmological behaviour in terms of the parameter n, determining all the equilibrium points, their stability and corresponding cosmological evolution. In particular, the appropriately compactified state space allows us to investigate static and bouncing solutions. We find no Einstein static solutions, but there do exist cosmologies with bounce behaviours. We also investigate the isotropization of these models and find that all isotropic points are flat Friedmann-like.


PACS

98.80.Cq Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe (including cosmic pancakes, cosmic strings, chaotic phenomena, inflationary universe, etc.)

04.50.-h Higher-dimensional gravity and other theories of gravity

04.20.Jb Exact solutions

95.30.Sf Relativity and gravitation

MSC

83D05 Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories

83C15 Exact solutions

85A40 Cosmology (For relativistic cosmology, see 83F05)

83F05 Cosmology

83C05 Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 22 (21 November 2007)

Received 9 August 2007, in final form 17 September 2007

Published 6 November 2007



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