Anisotropic chiral cosmology: Exact solutions

Abstract

In this work, we investigate the anisotropic Bianchi type I cosmological model in the chiral set-up in a twofold manner. Firstly, we consider a quintessence plus a [Formula: see text]-essence-like model, where two scalar fields but only one potential term is considered. Secondly, we look at a model where in addition to the two scalar fields the two potential terms are taken into account as well as the standard kinetic energy and the mixed term. Regarding this second model, it is shown that two possible cases can be studied: a quintom-like case and a quintessence-like case. In each of the models, we were able to find both classical and quantum analytical solutions.