Conformal transformations in cosmology of modified gravity: The covariant approach perspective

DOI10.1007/S10714-010-0936-1zbMATH Open1197.83089arXiv0907.3941OpenAlexW3104489197WikidataQ62562798 ScholiaQ62562798MaRDI QIDQ5961912FDOQ5961912

Sante Carloni, Emilio Elizalde, Sergei D. Odintsov

Publication date: 16 September 2010

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The 1+3 covariant approach and the covariant gauge-invariant approach to perturbations are used to analyze in depth conformal transformations in cosmology. Such techniques allow us to obtain very interesting insights on the physical content of these transformations, when applied to non-standard gravity. The results obtained lead to a number of general conclusions on the change of some key quantities describing any two conformally related cosmological models. In particular, it is shown that the physics in the Einstein frame has characteristics which are completely different from those in the Jordan frame. Even if some of the geometrical properties of the cosmology are preserved (homogeneous and isotropic Universes are mapped into homogeneous and isotropic universes), it can happen that decelerating cosmologies are mapped into accelerated ones. Differences become even more pronounced when first-order perturbations are considered: from the 1+3 equations it is seen that first-order vector and tensor perturbations are left unchanged in their structure by the conformal transformation, but this cannot be said of the scalar perturbations, which include the matter density fluctuations. Behavior in the two frames of the growth rate, as well as other evolutionary features, like the presence or absence of oscillations, etc., appear to be different too. The results obtained are then explicitly interpreted and verified with the help of some clarifying examples based on $f(R)$-gravity cosmologies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3941

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zbMATH Keywords

modified gravitycosmologyconformal transformations1+3 covariant approachcovariant gauge invariant theory of perturbations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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