Late-time oscillatory behaviour for self-gravitating scalar fields
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This paper investigates the late-time behaviour of certain cosmological models where oscillations play an essential role. Rigorous results are proved on the asymptotics of homogeneous and isotropic spacetimes with a linear massive scalar field as source. Various generalizations are obtained for nonlinear massive scalar fields, k-essence models and f (R) gravity. The effect of adding ordinary matter is discussed as is the case of nonlinear scalar fields whose potential has a degenerate zero. PACS numbers: 98.80.−k, 04.20.−q
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self-gravitating scalar fields
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