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Gabriele Gionti S. J.

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arXiv2024

On the canonical equivalence between Jordan and Einstein frames

A longstanding issue is the classical equivalence between the Jordan and the Einstein frames, which is considered just a field redefinition of the metric tensor and the scalar field. In this work, based on the previous result that the Hamiltonian transformations from the Jordan to the Einstein frame are not canonical on the extended phase space, we study the possibility of the existence of canonical transformations. We show that on the reduced phase space -- defined by suitable gauge fixing of the lapse and shifts functions -- these transformations are Hamiltonian canonical. Poisson brackets are replaced by Dirac's brackets following the Bergman-Dirac's procedure. The Hamiltonian canonical transformations map solutions of the equations of motion in the Jordan frame into solutions of the equations of motion in the Einstein frame.

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arXiv2021

Jordan and Einstein Frames from the perspective of $ω=-3/2$ Hamiltonian Brans-Dicke theory

We carefully perform a Hamiltonian Dirac's constraint analysis of $ω=-\frac{3}{2}$ Brans-Dicke theory with Gibbons-Hawking-York (GHY) boundary term. The Poisson brackets are computed via functional derivatives. After a brief summary of the results for $ω\neq-\frac{3}{2}$ case, we derive all Hamiltonian Dirac's constraints and constraint algebra both in the Jordan and Einstein frames. Confronting and contrasting Dirac's constraint algebra in both frames, it is shown that they are not equivalent. This highlights the transformations from the Jordan to the Einstein frames are not Hamiltonian canonical transformations.

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arXiv2021

Photon helicity and quantum anomalies in curved spacetimes

We compare several definitions of photon helicity (magnetic, electric, electromagnetic) present in literature. In curved spacetime quantum anomalies can spoil helicity conservation inducing, according to these definitions, different effects on photons: either rotation of linear polarization or production of circular polarization. We derive the Noether current associated with duality transformations starting from manifestly invariant Lagrangians.

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arXiv2016

Aspects of Duality in Cosmology

In the first part of this article, given the intent to stay at a popular level, it has been introduced and explained briefly basic concepts of Einstein's General Relativity, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, String Theory, Quantum Gravity and Extended Theories of Gravity. The core of this research is based on selecting a class of f(R) theories of gravity, which exhibits scale factor duality transformations. The starting point of this theory is the effective theory of gravity derived from Bosonic String Theory, which is called tree level effective theory of gravity. It is shown that this theory can be cast in a class of f(R) theories of gravity (modified theories of Einstein's General Relativity). It is imposed that FLRW metric be solution of this class of $f(R)$ theories, and, using the Noether symmetry approach, it is found that the cosmological model has scale factor duality like the Pre-Big Bang cosmology of Gasperini and Veneziano.

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