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Instabilities, Point Attractors and Limit Cycles in a Inflationary Universe

Luca Salasnich

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9512207

Abstract

We study the stability of a scalar inflaton field and analyze its point attractors in the phase space. We show that the value of the inflaton field in the vacuum is a bifurcation parameter and prove the possible existence of a limit cycle by using analytical and numerical arguments.

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