Conformal symmetries of FRW accelerating cosmologies

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.05.006zbMATH Open1323.83009arXiv1309.3671OpenAlexW2081977145MaRDI QIDQ748637FDOQ748637

A. Riotto, A. Kehagias

Publication date: 29 October 2015

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that any accelerating Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmology with equation of state w < -1/3 (and therefore not only a de Sitter stage with w =-1) exhibits three-dimensional conformal symmetry on future constant-time hypersurfaces. We also offer an alternative derivation of this result in terms of conformal Killing vectors and show that long wavelength comoving curvature perturbations of the perturbed FRW metric are just conformal Killing motions of the FRW background. We then extend theb boundary conformal symmetry to the bulk for accelerating cosmologies. Our findings indicate that one can easily generate perturbations of scalar fields which are not only scale invariant, but also fully conformally invariant on super-Hubble scales. Measuring a scale-invariant power spectrum for the cosmological perturbation does not automatically imply that the universe went through a de Sitter stage.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.3671

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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