A Numerically solving Scalar field coupled to Friedman equation

[Soony143]

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I am a research student of MS PHYSICS. I have to numerically solve Friedman equation coupled to scalar field(phi). It is given in research paper of Sean Carroll, Mark Trodden and Hoffman entitled as ""can the dark energy equation of state parameter w be less than-1?"" http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.023509
The equations, that can be used are equation 5 and 14.
Plz someone help me, since it took me two extra semesters and I am on a verge of losing my degree, as per university policy.

I am a research student of MS PHYSICS. I have to numerically solve Friedman equation coupled to scalar field(phi). It is given in research paper of Sean Carroll, Mark Trodden and Hoffman entitled as ""can the dark energy equation of state parameter w be less than-1?"" http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.023509
The equations, that can be used are equation 5 and 14.
Plz someone help me, since it took me two extra semesters and I am on a verge of losing my degree, as per university policy.

 

[Paul Colby]

I know 0 about this topic, however, I’d start by listing all boundary conditions and all symmetries the problem is expected to have. Every symmetry should allow you to reduce the complexity of the resulting differential equation. Hopefully this will greatly improve your chances for a numerical solution.

 

[Soony143]

Will be a kind act.. thanks

 

[Soony143]

Following is the reply i received from one of the author of the paper, when I requested him to help me
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Hi,
I won’t be able to spend a lot of time on this but your question is not really about our paper. You’re asking about solving the Friedman equation coupled to a scalar field. This is a standard system that many authors have solved numerically It can be done in Mathematica, but one should rescale parameters so that one need not use large dimensionaful parameters like the Planck mass. Furthermore, you need not solve equation all three equations since they are redundant. Solving 5 and 14 together is sufficient.

Typically, the more difficult part of this is the Friedman equation, which is first order. You can find an example of how to approach solving it here
https://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~gravitybook/mathematica.html

You would need to include the scalar equation and solve them simultaneously.
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