Quantum effects can render w<-1 on cosmological scales

Details Quantum effects can render w<-1 on cosmological scales Quantum effects can render w<-1 on cosmological scales

2004-06-24

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0406098v2

Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 107301

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

9 pages, references added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.107301

We report on a revision of our previous computation of the renormalized expectation value of the stress-energy tensor of a massless, minimally coupled scalar with a quartic self-interaction on a locally de Sitter background. This model is important because it demonstrates that quantum effects can lead to violations of the weak energy condition on cosmological scales - on average, not just in fluctuations - although the effect in this particular model is far too small to be observed. The revision consists of modifying the propagator so that dimensional regularization can be used when the dimension of the renormalized theory is not four. Although the finite part of the stress-energy tensor does not change (in D=4) from our previous result, the counterterms do. We also speculate that a certain, finite and separately conserved part of the stress tensor can be subsumed into a natural correction of the initial state from free Bunch-Davies vacuum.

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