Quantum cosmology in scalar-tensor theories with non-minimal coupling

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/12/304zbMATH Open0939.83071arXivgr-qc/9903111OpenAlexW2053052126MaRDI QIDQ4934952FDOQ4934952

Authors: A. F. Velasco, Julio C. Fabris, Nelson Pinto-Neto 

Publication date: 30 January 2000

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

Abstract: Quantization in the minisuperspace of non minimal scalar-tensor theories leads to a partial differential equation which is non separable. Through a conformal transformation we can recast the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in an integrable form, which corresponds to the minimal coupling case, whose general solution is known. Performing the inverse conformal transformation in the solution so found, we can construct the corresponding one in the original frame. This procedure can also be employed with the bohmian trajectories. In this way, we can study the classical limit of some solutions of this quantum model. While the classical limit of these solutions occurs for small scale factors in the Einstein's frame, it happens for small values of the scalar field non minimally coupled to gravity in the Jordan's frame, which includes large scale factors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9903111

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zbMATH Keywords

quantizationminisuperspacescalar-tensor theoriesWheeler-De Witt equationtheories of gravity with non-minimal coupling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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