Casimir effect: running Newton constant or cosmological term

Details Casimir effect: running Newton constant or cosmological term Casimir effect: running Newton constant or cosmological term

2004-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0404185v3

Class.Quant.Grav. 23 (2006) 207-224

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Final, slightly extended version, to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/23/1/010

We argue that the instability of Euclidean Einstein gravity is an indication that the vacuum is non perturbative and contains a condensate of the metric tensor in a manner reminiscent of Yang-Mills theories. As a simple step toward the characterization of such a vacuum the value of the one-loop effective action is computed for Euclidean de Sitter spaces as a function of the curvature when the unstable conformal modes are held fixed. Two phases are found, one where the curvature is large and gravitons should be confined and another one which appears to be weakly coupled and tends to be flat. The induced cosmological constant is positive or negative in the strongly or weakly curved phase, respectively. The relevance of the Casimir effect in understanding the UV sensitivity of gravity is pointed out.

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