Vacuum driven accelerated expansion

It has been shown that an improved estimation of the quantum vacuum energy can yield not only theoretically acceptable but also experimentally realistic results. Our idea consists in a straightforward extraction of the gravitationally interacting part of the full quantum vacuum energy by means of ga...

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Published in:Annalen der Physik 2008-11, Vol.520 (11), p.855-863
Main Authors: Broda, B., Bronowski, P., Ostrowski, M., Szanecki, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accelerated expansion
Casimir effect
cosmological constant
dark energy
quantum vacuum energy
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Summary:It has been shown that an improved estimation of the quantum vacuum energy can yield not only theoretically acceptable but also experimentally realistic results. Our idea consists in a straightforward extraction of the gravitationally interacting part of the full quantum vacuum energy by means of gauge transformations. The implementation of this idea has been performed, in the background of a Friedmann‐Lemaître‐Robertson‐Walker geometry, by means of the euclidean version of the effective action formalism, in the language of Schwinger's proper time and Seeley‐DeWitt's heat kernel expansion.
ISSN:0003-3804
1521-3889
DOI:10.1002/andp.20085201103