General solutions for flat Friedmann universe filled by perfect fluid and scalar field with exponential potential
Abstract
We study integrability by quadrature of a spatially flat Friedmann model containing both a minimally coupled scalar field φ with an exponential potential V(φ)[-6σφ], =8π GN, of arbitrary sign and a perfect fluid with barotropic equation of state p=(1-h). From the mathematical view point the model is pseudo-Euclidean Toda-like system with 2 degrees of freedom. We apply the methods developed in our previous papers, based on the Minkowsky-like geometry for 2 characteristic vectors depending on the parameters σ and h. In general case the problem is reduced to integrability of a second order ordinary differential equation known as the generalized Emden-Fowler equation, which was investigated by discrete-group methods. We present 4 classes of general solutions for the parameters obeying the following relations: A. σ is arbitrary, h=0; B. σ=1-h/2, 0<h<2; C1. σ=1-h/4, 0<h≤ 2; C2. σ=|1-h|, 0<h≤ 2, h≠ 1,4/3. We discuss the properties of the exact solutions near the initial singularity and at the final stage of evolution.
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