Future dynamics of FLRW for the massless-scalar field system with positive cosmological constant
Grigorios Fournodavlos
Source abstract
We consider solutions to the Einstein-massless-scalar field system with a positive cosmological constant, arising from sufficiently regular, near-FLRW (Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker), initial data. We establish global existence in the future direction and derive their precise asymptotic behavior toward infinity. As a corollary, we infer that, unlike the FLRW background, the perturbed solutions do not describe a regular irrotational stiff fluid with a linear equation of state p = ρ for general asymptotic data at infinity. The reason for the breakdown of this interpretation is that the gradient of the scalar field stops being timelike at large times, eventually becoming null and then spacelike near infinity. Our results hold for open sets of initial data in Sobolev spaces without symmetries.
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