Journeys through antigravity?

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2014)130zbMATH Open1333.83264arXiv1311.3671MaRDI QIDQ270348FDOQ270348

Authors: John Joseph M. Carrasco, Renata Kallosh, W. Chemissany 

Publication date: 7 April 2016

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

Abstract: A possibility of journeys through antigravity has recently been proposed, with the suggestion that Weyl-invariant extension of scalars coupled to Einstein gravity allows for an unambiguous classical evolution through cosmological singularities in anisotropic spacetimes. We compute the Weyl invariant curvature squared and find that it blows up for the proposed anisotropic solution both at the Big Crunch as well as at the Big Bang. Therefore the cosmological singularities are not resolved by uplifting Einstein theory to a Weyl invariant model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3671

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zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravityspacetime singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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• Dynamical string tension in string theory with spacetime Weyl invariance
• General Relativity
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• A critical review of classical bouncing cosmologies
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• Curing black hole singularities with local scale invariance
• Singularity crossing, transformation of matter properties and the problem of parametrization in field theories

Uses Software

• xAct
• xCoba

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