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The conformal frame freedom in theories of gravitation

Éanna É Flanagan

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It has frequently been claimed in the literature that the classical physical predictions of scalar–tensor theories of gravity depend on the conformal frame in which the theory is formulated. We argue that this claim is false, and that all classical physical predictions are conformal-frame invariants. We also respond to criticisms by Vollick (2003 Preprint gr-qc/0312041), in which this issue arises, of our recent analysis of the Palatini form of 1/R gravity.


PACS

04.50.-h Higher-dimensional gravity and other theories of gravity

04.60.-m Quantum gravity

04.80.Cc Experimental tests of gravitational theories

MSC

83Cxx General relativity

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Dates

Issue 15 (7 August 2004)

Received 26 February 2004

Published 20 July 2004



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