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Brans-Dicke-type theories and avoidance of the cosmological singularity

Aug, 1999

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Phys.Rev.D 62 (2000) 044042

e-Print:

gr-qc/9908075 [gr-qc]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.62.044042

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We tudy flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology in Brans-Dicke-type theories of gravitation with minimal coupling between the scalar field and the matter fields in the Einstein frame (general relativity with an extra scalar field) for arbitrary values of the Brans-Dicke parameter

\omega>-{3/2}

. It is shown that the cosmological singularity occuring in the Einstein frame formulation of this theory is removed in the Jordan frame in the range

-{3/2}<\omega<\leq-{4/3}

. This result is interpreted in the ligth of a viewpoint (first presented in reference gr-qc/9905071) asserting that both Jordan frame and Einstein frame formulations of general relativity are physically equivalent. The implications of the obtained result for string theory are outlined.

gravitation
Brans-Dicke model
transformation: conformal
field equations: solution
boundary condition

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