The cosmological constant from conformal transformations: Möbius invariance and Schwarzian action

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABB577MaRDI QIDQ5162379zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Etera R. Livine, Jibril Ben Achour

Publication date 2 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05841

zbMATH Keywords

conformal invariancecosmological constantFLRW cosmologyhidden symmetrySchwarzian derivative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The homogeneous Friedman-Lema^i tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology of a free scalar field with vanishing cosmological constant was recently shown to be invariant under the one-dimensional conformal group $extrmSL(2,mathbbR)$ acting as M{"o}bius transformations on the proper time. Here we generalize this analysis to arbitrary transformations of the proper time, $aumapstoildeau=f(au)$, which are not to be confused with reparametrizations of the time coordinate. First, we show that the FLRW cosmology with a non-vanishing cosmological constant $Lambdae0$ is also invariant under a $extrmSL(2,mathbbR)$ group of conformal transformations. The associated conformal Noether charges form a $mathfraksl(2,mathbbR)$ Lie algebra which encodes the cosmic evolution. Second, we show that a cosmological constant can be generated from the $Lambda=0$ case through particular conformal transformations, realizing a compactification or de-compactification of the proper time depending on the sign of $Lambda$. Finally, we propose an extended FLRW cosmological action invariant under the full group $extrmDiff({calS}^1)$ of conformal transformations on the proper time, by promoting the cosmological constant to a gauge field for conformal transformations or by modifying the scalar field action to a Schwarzian action. Such a conformally-invariant cosmology leads to a renewed problem of time and to the necessity to re-think inflation in purely time-deparameterized terms.

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