Journal
UNIVERSE
Volume 7, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/universe7120491
Keywords
singularity; cosmology; inflation
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This paper expands the analysis of singularities in scalar field cosmological models by using generalised power expansions to describe all possible models leading to a singularity and finding other possible cases. Unless a negative scalar field potential is considered, all singularities are weak and of type IV.
Due to the accelerated expansion of the universe, the possibilities for the formation of singularities has changed from the classical Big Bang and Big Crunch singularities to include a number of new scenarios. In recent papers it has been shown that such singularities may appear in inflationary cosmological models with a fractional power scalar field potential. In this paper we enlarge the analysis of singularities in scalar field cosmological models by the use of generalised power expansions of their Hubble scalars and their scalar fields in order to describe all possible models leading to a singularity, finding other possible cases. Unless a negative scalar field potential is considered, all singularities are weak and of type IV.
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