Conformal structure of FLRW cosmology: spinorial representation and the so (2, 3) algebra of observables

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2020)067zbMATH Open1435.83206arXiv2001.11807OpenAlexW3012325720MaRDI QIDQ2191685FDOQ2191685

Authors: Jibril Ben Achour, Etera R. Livine 

Publication date: 25 June 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It was recently shown that the homogeneous and isotropic cosmology of a massless scalar field coupled to general relativity exhibits a new hidden conformal invariance under Mobius transformation of the proper time, additionally to the invariance under time-reparamterization. The resulting Noether charges form a $sl(2,mathbbR)$ Lie algebra, which encapsulates the whole kinematics and dynamics of the geometry. This allows to map FLRW cosmology onto conformal mechanics and formulate quantum cosmology in $ext{CFT}_1$ terms. Here, we show that this conformal structure is embedded in a larger $so(3,2)$ algebra of observables, which allows to present all the Dirac observables for the whole gravity plus matter sectors in a unified picture. Not only this allows one to quantize the system and its whole algebra of observables as a single irreducible representation of $so(3,2)$, but this also gives access to a scalar field operator $hatphi$ opening the door to the inclusion of non-trivial potentials for the scalar field. As such, this extended conformal structure might allow to perform a group quantization of inflationary cosmological backgrounds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11807

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zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravityconformal and W symmetryglobal symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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