https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-02266-2
Regular Article
Light-like propagation of self-interacting Klein–Gordon fields in cosmology
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Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, 7491169, Santiago, Chile
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Departamento de Ciencias, Facultad de Artes Liberales, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, 7491169, Santiago, Chile
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Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, 7800003, Santiago, Chile
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Centro de Recursos Educativos Avanzados, CREA, 7500018, Santiago, Chile
Received:
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June
2021
Accepted:
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December
2021
Published online:
14
December
2021
It is showed that complex scalar fields with a self-interaction potential may propagate along null geodesics on isotropic flat Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker universes with different time-dependent scale factors. This effect appears for certain kinds of self-interactions only, for different forms of potentials, and even for the massive case.
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