Gravitational Collapse of Dark Energy Field Configurations

TL;DR

This paper develops a formalism to analyze the gravitational collapse of dark energy fields with various potentials, applying it to particle physics motivated models and solving the evolution equations for field and spacetime dynamics.

Contribution

It introduces a general formalism for studying gravitational collapse of dark energy fields with arbitrary potentials, advancing understanding of their evolution in curved spacetime.

Findings

Formalism applicable to general dark energy models

Solutions describing the evolution of field configurations

Insights into the dynamics of dark energy during collapse

Abstract

It is now a well established fact based on several observations that we live in a Universe dominated by dark energy. The most natural candidates for dark energy are fields in curved space-time. We develop the formalism to study the gravitational collapse of fields given any general potential. We apply this formalism to models of dark energy motivated by particle physics considerations. We solve the resulting evolution equations which determine the time evolution of field configurations as well as the dynamics of spacetime.