Conformally related metrics and Lagrangians and their physical interpretation in cosmology

DOI10.1007/S10714-013-1575-0zbMATH Open1274.83125arXiv1307.6694OpenAlexW3102358659MaRDI QIDQ376237FDOQ376237

Spyros Basilakos, Salvatore Capozziello, Michael Tsamparlis, Andronikos Paliathanasis

Publication date: 4 November 2013

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Conformally related metrics and Lagrangians are considered in the context of scalar-tensor gravity cosmology. After the discussion of the problem, we pose a lemma in which we show that the field equations of two conformally related Lagrangians are also conformally related if and only if the corresponding Hamiltonian vanishes. Then we prove that to every non-minimally coupled scalar field, we may associate a unique minimally coupled scalar field in a conformally related space with an appropriate potential. The latter result implies that the field equations of a non-minimally coupled scalar field are the same at the conformal level with the field equations of the minimally coupled scalar field. This fact is relevant in order to select physical variables among conformally equivalent systems. Finally, we find that the above propositions can be extended to a general Riemannian space of n-dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6694

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyalternative theories of gravityconformal transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• DYNAMICS OF DARK ENERGY
• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
• Mach's Principle and Invariance under Transformation of Units
• Dark energy cosmology: the equivalent description via different theoretical models and cosmography tests
• Extended theories of gravity and their cosmological and astrophysical applications
• Mach's Principle and a Relativistic Theory of Gravitation
• Accelerating cold dark matter cosmology (Ω _Λ ≡ 0)
• CURVATURE QUINTESSENCE
• Cosmological Imprint of an Energy Component with General Equation of State
• The cosmological constant problem
• Beyond Einstein gravity. A survey of gravitational theories for cosmology and astrophysics.
• Non-minimal couplings, quantum geometry and black-hole entropy
• The conformal frame freedom in theories of gravitation
• Quintessence and supergravity
• Lie and Noether symmetries of geodesic equations and collineations
• An alternative to quintessence
• Conformal aspects of the Palatini approach in extended theories of gravity
• On the quantization of Newton-equivalent Hamiltonians
• Special Relativity
• Some aspects of the cosmological conformal equivalence between the `Jordan frame' and the `Einstein frame'
• Conformal equivalence and Noether symmetries in cosmology
• Computation of the conformal algebra of 1 + 3 decomposable spacetimes
• Zur empirischen Kosmologie
• The Interactions of Nucleons with Meson Fields
• From dark energy \& dark matter to dark metric

Cited In (17)

• Classical and quantum cosmology in f(T)-gravity theory: A Noether symmetry approach
• Scalar induced gravitational waves from primordial black hole Poisson fluctuations in f(R) gravity
• Stability of a modified Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory in the dilatonic frame
• On the Hojman conservation quantities in cosmology
• Viability of Noether symmetry of \(F(R)\) theory of gravity
• Symmetries and singularities of the Szekeres system
• The geometric origin of Lie point symmetries of the Schrödinger and the Klein–Gordon equations
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Energy conditions in modified gravity
• Modified Brans-Dicke cosmology with minimum length uncertainty
• Sundman transformation and alternative tangent structures
• Relation between physical and metric field in general relativity and cosmology
• The common solution space of general relativity
• Covariant approach to the conformal dynamical equivalence in astrophysics
• Strong energy condition and the repulsive character of \(f(R)\) gravity
• The role of energy conditions in \(f(R)\) cosmology
• On the application of Lie point symmetries in cosmological theories with minisuperspace description

This page was built for publication: Conformally related metrics and Lagrangians and their physical interpretation in cosmology

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q376237)