Scalar fields with power-law potentials in quantum cosmology
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Abstract
A homogeneous and isotropic quantum cosmological system (universe) initially filled with a uniform scalar field that has a potential in the power law representation is considered. Depending on the epoch, this scalar field yields barotropic matter in the form of stiff matter, perfect gas, radiation, dust, cosmic strings, domain walls, de Sitter vacuum, or phantom matter. The proposed approach is based on quantum geometrodynamics for the maximally symmetric space. The relevant differential equations for the separate power-law summands of the scalar field potential and the corresponding quantum Hamiltonian constraint equations, which describe the universe that can be viewed as dominated by one form or another of barotropic matter, were obtained. The solutions to these equations have been found in analytical form.