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Some aspects of the cosmological conformal equivalence between ``Jordan Frame'' and ``Einstein Frame''

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

The conformal equivalence between Jordan frame and Einstein frame can be used in order to search for exact solutions in general theories of gravity in which scalar fields are minimally or nonminimally coupled with geometry. In the cosmological arena a relevant role is played by the time parameter in which dynamics is described. In this paper we discuss such issues considering also if cosmological Noether symmetries in the ``point--like'' Lagrangian are conformally preserved. Through this analysis and through also a careful analysis of the cosmological parameters \Omega and \Lambda, it is possible to contribute to the discussion on which is the physical system.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9612053,
  title  = {Some aspects of the cosmological conformal equivalence between ``Jordan Frame'' and ``Einstein Frame''},
  author = {Salvatore Capozziello and Ruggiero de Ritis and Alma Angela Marino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9612053},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

25 pages, latex, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav