Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1994-04-17
Int.J.Mod.Phys. D4 (1995) 397-416
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
revised version (accepted by Int. J. Mod. Phys. D, ed.: A. Ashtekar, 2-Nov-94), 23 pages, LATEX, Uni Potsdam MATH-94/02
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0218271895000302
Conformal transformations of the following kinds are compared: (1) conformal coordinate transformations, (2) conformal transformations of Lagrangian models for a D-dimensional geometry, given by a Riemannian manifold M with metric g of arbitrary signature, and (3) conformal transformations of (mini-)superspace geometry. For conformal invariance under this transformations the following applications are given respectively: (1) Natural time gauges for multidimensional geometry, (2) conformally equivalent Lagrangian models for geometry coupled to a spacially homogeneous scalar field, and (3) the conformal Laplace operator on the $n$-dimensional manifold $M of minisuperspace for multidimensional geometry and the Wheeler de Witt equation. The conformal coupling constant xi_c is critically distinguished among arbitrary couplings xi, for both, the equivalence of Lagrangian models with D-dimensional geometry and the conformal geometry on n-dimensional minisuperspace. For dimension D=3,4,6 or 10, the critical number xi_c={D-2}/{4(D-1)} is especially simple as a rational fraction.
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