Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the possibility of avoiding the Big Bang singularity with a single scalar field which couples non-minimally to gravity. We show that in the case when gravity couples linearly to the field, some severe conditions on the field's potential have to be imposed. However, in the nonlinear case, it is quite generic to avoid the singularity with the single scalar field.

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