Disformal invariance of cosmological observables

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/06/003zbMATH Open1492.83015arXiv2003.10633OpenAlexW3099300320MaRDI QIDQ5069148FDOQ5069148

Authors: Takeshi Chiba, Fabio Chibana, Masahide Yamaguchi 

Publication date: 8 April 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the frame dependence/independence of cosmological observables under disformal transformations, extending the previous results regarding conformal transformations, and provide the correspondence between Jordan-frame and Einstein-frame variables. We consider quantities such as the gravitational constant in the Newtonian limit, redshift, luminosity and angular diameter distances, as well as the distance-duality relation. Also, the Boltzmann equation, the observed specific intensity, and the adiabaticity condition are discussed. Since the electromagnetic action changes under disformal transformations, photons in the Einstein frame no longer propagate along null geodesics. As a result, several quantities of cosmological interest are modified. Nevertheless, we show that the redshift is invariant and the distance-duality relation (the relation between the luminosity distance and the angular diameter distance) still holds in general spacetimes even though the reciprocity relation (the relation between two geometrical distances) is modified.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10633

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravitycosmological perturbation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Quantum optics (81V80) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Conformal mappings of special domains (30C20) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

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