COSMOLOGY IN SCALAR–TENSOR THEORY AND ASYMPTOTICALLY de SITTER UNIVERSE

Abstract

We have investigated the cosmological scenarios with a four-dimensional effective action which is connected with multidimensional, supergravity and string theories. The solution for the scale factor is such that initially universe undergoes a decelerated expansion but in late times it enters into the accelerated expansion phase. In fact, it asymptotically becomes a de Sitter universe. The dilaton field in our model is a decreasing function of time and it becomes a constant in late time resulting the exit from the scalar–tensor theory to the standard Einstein's gravity. Also the dilaton field results in the existence of a positive cosmological constant in late times.