Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2004-06-17
Int.J.Theor.Phys. 43 (2004) 575-583
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
12 pages, to appear in the proceedings of Peyresq 8
Scientific paper
10.1023/B:IJTP.0000048165.51958.
We show that the inclusion of a term $C_{abcd}C^{abcd}$ in the action can remove the recently described anisotropic singularity occurring on the hypersurface $F(\phi)=0$ of scalar-tensor theories of gravity of the type $$ S=\int d^4x \sqrt{-g} {F(\phi)R - \partial_a\phi\partial^a\phi -2V(\phi)}, $$ preserving, by construction, all of their isotropic solutions. We show that, in principle, a higher order term of this type can arise from considerations about the renormalizability of the semiclassical approach to the theory. Such result brings again into consideration the quintessential models recently proposed based in a conformally coupled scalar field ($F(\phi)=1-{1/6}\phi^2$) with potential $V(\phi)=\frac{m}{2}\phi^2 -\frac{\Omega}{4}\phi^4$, that have been discharged as unrealistic precisely by their anisotropic instabilities on the hypersurface $F(\phi)=0$.
Gunzig Edgard
Saa Alberto
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