28–30 Oct 2015
Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC
Europe/Madrid timezone

Misao Sasaki, Conformal frames in gravity: frame dependence vs observational equivalence

30 Oct 2015, 10:30
1h
Blue room (Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC)

Blue room

Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Description

It seems there is certain degrees of confusion about consequences of a conformal transformation of the metric. In this talk, I clarify what are frame dependent and what are not in the cosmological context. Then we argue that "inflation" should be defined as an accelerated expansion in the Einstein frame assuming it exists. Some interesting examples of thus defined inflationary models are presented.

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