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Conformal transformations and Nordstr\"om's scalar theory of gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-05-20 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

As we shall briefly recall, Nordstr\"om's theory of gravity is observationally ruled out. It is however an interesting example of non-minimal coupling of matter to gravity and of the role of conformal transformations. We show in particular that they could be useful to extend manifolds through curvature singularities.

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@article{arxiv.1012.5386,
  title  = {Conformal transformations and Nordstr\"om's scalar theory of gravity},
  author = {Nathalie Deruelle and Misao Sasaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.5386},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, no figure, prepared for the Proceedings of YKIS2010, to be published in Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement