Conformal quantum effects and the anisotropic singularities of scalar-tensor theories of gravity

DOI10.1023/B:IJTP.0000048165.51958.9AMaRDI QIDQ1768634zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alberto Saa, Edgar Gunzig

Publication date 15 March 2005

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0406069

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyquintessencesingularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We show that the inclusion of a term $C_{abcd}{C}^{abcd}$ in the action can remove the recently described anisotropic singularity occurring on the hypersurface $F(phi)=0$ of scalar-tensor theories of gravity of the type ${\displaystyle }$ S=int d^4x sqrt{-g} {F(phi)R - partial_aphipartial^aphi -2V(phi)}, ${\displaystyle }$ preserving, by construction, all of their isotropic solutions. We show that, in principle, a higher order term of this type can arise from considerations about the renormalizability of the semiclassical approach to the theory. Such result brings again into consideration the quintessential models recently proposed based in a conformally coupled scalar field ($F(phi)=1-1/6ph{i}^2$) with potential $V(phi)=fracm2ph{i}^2-fracOmega4ph{i}^4$, that have been discharged as unrealistic precisely by their anisotropic instabilities on the hypersurface $F(phi)=0$.

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