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We study homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies in different gravity theories with one or two fluids and/or one scalar field as matter source. We give a brief review of the basic mathematical formalism of the theory of finite dynamical systems. We write the field equations in a form suitable for the dynamical system approach and analyze the general properties of the system of DEs describing the evolution of the models. Finally we discuss without technical details the dynamical system approach to the study of Bianchi type models.
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Miritzis, J. (2002). Introduction to Cosmological Dynamical Systems. In: Cotsakis, S., Papantonopoulos, E. (eds) Cosmological Crossroads. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 592. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48025-0_6
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