Symmetric vacuum scalar - tensor cosmology

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/9/010MaRDI QIDQ4894741zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James E. Lidsey

Publication date 15 April 1997

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9603052

zbMATH Keywords

Brans-Dicke theorydilaton fieldpoint symmetriescosmological field equationsscale factor dualityvacuum scalar-tensor theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The existence of point symmetries in the cosmological field equations of generalized vacuum scalar--tensor theories is considered within the context of the spatially homogeneous cosmologies. It is found that such symmetries only occur in the Brans--Dicke theory when the dilaton field self--interacts. Moreover, the interaction potential of the dilaton must take the form of a cosmological constant. For the spatially flat, isotropic model, it is shown how this point symmetry may be employed to generate a discrete scale factor duality in the Brans--Dicke action.

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