Singularities in isotropic non-minimal scalar field models

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/15/016zbMATH Open1101.83035arXivgr-qc/0604105OpenAlexW3106247831MaRDI QIDQ5485560FDOQ5485560

Authors: Martin Bojowald, Mikhail Kagan 

Publication date: 30 August 2006

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

Abstract: Non-minimally coupling a scalar field to gravity introduces an additional curvature term into the action which can change the general behavior in strong curvature regimes, in particular close to classical singularities. While one can conformally transform any non-minimal model to a minimally coupled one, that transformation can itself become singular. It is thus not guaranteed that all qualitative properties are shared by minimal and non-minimal models. This paper addresses the classical singularity issue in isotropic models and extends singularity removal in quantum gravity to non-minimal models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0604105

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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