Sudden Brans–Dicke singularities
Published version
Peer-reviewed
Repository URI
Repository DOI
Change log
Authors
Abstract
Abstract: We show that cosmological sudden singularities that respect the energy conditions can occur at finite times in Brans–Dicke and more general scalar-tensor theories of gravity. We construct these explicitly in the Friedmann universes. Higher-order versions of these singularities are also possible, including those that arise with when scalar fields have a self-interaction potential of power-law form.
Description
Funder: STFC
Keywords
Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Conference Name
Journal ISSN
0264-9381
1361-6382
1361-6382
Volume Title
37
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Publisher DOI
Rights and licensing
Except where otherwised noted, this item's license is described as Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)