Symmetric vacuum scalar--tensor cosmology

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1996-03-27

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9603052v1

Class.Quant.Grav. 13 (1996) 2449-2456

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

10 pages, latex, To appear in Class. Quantum Grav

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/13/9/010

The existence of point symmetries in the cosmological field equations of generalized vacuum scalar--tensor theories is considered within the context of the spatially homogeneous cosmologies. It is found that such symmetries only occur in the Brans--Dicke theory when the dilaton field self--interacts. Moreover, the interaction potential of the dilaton must take the form of a cosmological constant. For the spatially flat, isotropic model, it is shown how this point symmetry may be employed to generate a discrete scale factor duality in the Brans--Dicke action.

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