Bohmer, Christian G;
del Sordo, Antonio d'Alfonso;
(2024)
Cosmological fluids with boundary term couplings.
General Relativity and Gravitation
, 56
, Article 75. 10.1007/s10714-024-03260-6.
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Abstract
Cosmological models can be studied effectively using dynamical systems techniques. Starting from Brown’s formulation of the variational principle for relativistic fluids, we introduce new types of couplings involving a perfect fluid, a scalar field, and boundary terms. We describe three different coupling models, one of which turns out to be particularly relevant for cosmology. Its behaviour is similar to that of models in which dark matter decays into dark energy. In particular, for a constant coupling, the model mimics well-known dynamical dark energy models while the non-constant couplings offer a rich dynamical structure, unseen before. We are able to achieve this richness whilst working in a two-dimensional phase space. This is a significant advantage which allows us to provide a clear physical interpretation of the key features and draw analogies with previously studied models.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Cosmological fluids with boundary term couplings |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10714-024-03260-6 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10714-024-03260-6 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Mathematics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10194624 |
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