%0 Journal Article
%T Thawing models in the presence of a generalized Chaplygin gas
%A Sergio del Campo
%A Carlos R. Fadragas
%A Ramon Herrera
%A Carlos Leiva
%A Genly Leon
%A Joel Saavedra
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.023532
%X In this paper we consider a cosmological model whose main components are a scalar field and a generalized Chaplygin gas. We obtain an exact solution for a flat arbitrary potential. This solution have the right dust limit when the Chaplygin parameter $A\rightarrow 0$. We use the dynamical systems approach in order to describe the cosmological evolution of the mixture for an exponential self-interacting scalar field potential. We study the scalar field with an arbitrary self-interacting potential using the "Method of $f$-devisers." Our results are illustrated for the special case of a coshlike potential. We find that usual scalar-field-dominated and scaling solutions cannot be late-time attractors in the presence of the Chaplygin gas (with $\alpha>0$). We recover the standard results at the dust limit ($A\rightarrow 0$). In particular, for the exponential potential, the late-time attractor is a pure generalized Chaplygin solution mimicking an effective cosmological constant. In the case of arbitrary potentials, the late-time attractors are de Sitter solutions in the form of a cosmological constant, a pure generalized Chaplygin solution or a continuum of solutions, when the scalar field and the Chaplygin gas densities are of the same orders of magnitude. The different situations depend on the parameter choices.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5779v3