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Conformally coupled scalar field

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A conformally coupled scalar field includes the curvature coupling that makes the massless scalar action invariant under local conformal rescaling in the appropriate dimension. In four-dimensional de Sitter spacetime its mode equation is equivalent to that of a flat-space massless scalar after conformal rescaling.

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