A new class of exact solutions for coupled scalar field equations

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (17) ◽  
pp. L993-L999 ◽  
Author(s):  
N N Rao ◽  
D J Kaup
1998 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 1064
Author(s):  
FAN EN-GUI ◽  
ZHANG HONG-QING ◽  
LIN GANG

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens O. Andersen ◽  
Magdalena Eriksson ◽  
Anders Tranberg

Abstract Inflation is often described through the dynamics of a scalar field, slow-rolling in a suitable potential. Ultimately, this inflaton must be identified with the expectation value of a quantum field, evolving in a quantum effective potential. The shape of this potential is determined by the underlying tree-level potential, dressed by quantum corrections from the scalar field itself and the metric perturbations. Following [1], we compute the effective scalar field equations and the corrected Friedmann equations to quadratic order in both scalar field, scalar metric and tensor perturbations. We identify the quantum corrections from different sources at leading order in slow-roll, and estimate their magnitude in benchmark models of inflation. We comment on the implications of non-minimal coupling to gravity in this context.


2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (06) ◽  
pp. 1049-1061 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. CHAN ◽  
M. F. A. DA SILVA ◽  
J. F. VILLAS DA ROCHA ◽  
ANZHONG WANG

All the (2+1)-dimensional circularly symmetric solutions with kinematic self-similarity of the second kind to the Einstein-massless-scalar field equations are found and their local and global properties are studied. It is found that some of them represent gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field, in which black holes are always formed.


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