Dynamics of Brans-Dicke cosmology with varying mass fermions
- Center for Astrophysics, Shanghai Normal University, 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234 (China)
In this paper, the cosmological dynamics of Brans-Dicke (BD) theory in which there are fermions with a coupling to BD scalar field as well as a self-interaction potential is investigated. The conditions that there exists a solution which is stable and represents a late-time accelerated expansion of the Universe are found. The variable mass of fermions cannot vanish exactly during the evolution of the Universe once it exists initially. It is shown that the late-time acceleration depends completely on the self-interaction of the fermion field if our investigation is restricted to the theory with positive BD parameter {omega}. Provided a negative {omega} is allowed, there will be another two classes of stable solutions describing the late-time accelerated expansion of the Universe.
- OSTI ID:
- 21421130
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 82, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.063523; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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