Scalar perturbations and conformal transformation

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Authors Julio C. Fabris, J. Tossa

Publication date 18 January 2001

Published in Gravitation \& Cosmology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9604006

zbMATH Keywords

conformal transformationsminimal couplingnonminimal couplingRobertson-Walker metricsscalar perturbations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: The non-minimal coupling of gravity to a scalar field can be transformed into a minimal coupling through a conformal transformation. We show how to connect the results of a perturbation calculation, performed around a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background solution, before and after the conformal transformation. We work in the synchronous gauge, but we discuss the implications of employing other formalisms.

Review text

The author writes the field equations of the Brans-Dicke theory in the Einstein and the Jordan frames, determines the background solutions for the Robertson-Walker metric and connects them by a conformal transformation. Scalar perturbations in both cases are studied. The analytical solutions under the synchronous coordinate condition cannot be connected by a conformal transformation. Under different coordinate conditions, it is shown that passing from a frame to another preserves the solution.

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