Vacuum properties of non-symmetric gravity in de Sitter space

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Janssen, Tomas ^a   Prokopec, Tomislav ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gravity; Inflation; Quantum field theory on curved space

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547596315     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/05/010     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Weinberg S 1989 The cosmological constant problem Rev. Mod. Phys. 61 1
2. Nobbenhuis S 2006 The cosmological constant problem, an inspiration for new physics Preprint gr-qc/0609011
3. Lamoreaux SK 1997 Demonstration of the Casimir force in the 0.6 to 6 micrometers range Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 5
4. Casimir HB G 1948 On the attraction between two perfectly conducting plates Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Proc. 51 793
5. Jaffe RL 2005 The Casimir effect and the quantum vacuum Phys. Rev. D 72 021301 [hep-th/0503158]
6. Perlmutter S et al (Supernova Cosmology Project Collaboration) 1999 Measurements of omega and lambda from 42 high-redshift supernovae Astrophys. J. 517 565 [astro-ph/9812133]
7. Riess AG et al (Supernova Search Team Collaboration) 1998 Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant Astron. J. 116 1009 [astro-ph/9805201]
8. Lambda and w from the first year data set Astron. Astrophys. 447 31 [astro-ph/0510447]
9. Riess AG et al (Supernova Search Team Collaboration) 2004 Type Ia supernova discoveries at z>1 from the Hubble space telescope: evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution Astrophys. J. 607 665 [astro-ph/0402512]
10. Spergel DN et al 2006 Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) three year results: implications for cosmology Preprint astro-ph/0603449
11. Peskin ME and Schroeder DV 1995 An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley) Part II
12. Itzykson C and Zuber J B 1980 Quantum Field Theory (International Series In Pure and Applied Physics) (New York: McGraw-Hill) ch 8 and 9
13. Shapiro IL and Sola J 2000 On the scaling behaviour of the cosmological constant and the possible existence of new forces and new light degrees of freedom Phys. Lett. B 475 236 [hep-ph/9910462]
14. Shapiro IL and Sola J 2002 Scaling behaviour of the cosmological constant: interface between quantum field theory and cosmology J. High Energy Phys. JHEP02(2002)006 [hep-th/0012227]
15. Shapiro IL and Sola J 2006 Cosmological constant problems and renormalization group Preprint gr-qc/0611055
16. Reuter M 1998 Nonperturbative evolution equation for quantum gravity Phys. Rev. D 57 971 [hep-th/9605030]
17. Reuter M and Saueressig F 2002 Renormalization group flow of quantum gravity in the Einstein-Hilbert truncation Phys. Rev. D 65 065016 [hep-th/0110054]
18. Reuter M and Weyer H 2004 Quantum gravity at astrophysical distances? J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. JCAP12(2004)001 [hep-th/0410119]
19. Prokopec T 2006 A solution to the cosmological constant problem Preprint gr-qc/0603088
20. Moffat JW 1995 Nonsymmetric gravitational theory Phys. Lett. B 355 447 [gr-qc/9411006]
21. Clayton MA 1996 Massive NGT and spherically symmetric systems J. Math. Phys. 37 395 [gr-qc/9505005]
22. Janssen T and Prokopec T 2006 Problems and hopes in nonsymmetric gravity Preprint gr-qc/0611005
23. Mao Y, Tegmark M, Guth A and Cabi S 2006 Constraining torsion with gravity probe B Preprint gr-qc/0608121
24. Prokopec T and Valkenburg W 2006 Antisymmetric metric field as dark matter Preprint astro-ph/0606315
25. Prokopec T and Valkenburg W 2006 The cosmology of the nonsymmetric theory of gravitation Phys. Lett. B 636 1 [astro-ph/0503289]
26. Valkenburg W 2006 Linearized nonsymmetric metric perturbations in cosmology Master's Thesis ITP Utrecht University (Available at http://www1.phys.uu.nl/wwwitf/teaching/thesis.htm)
27. Janssen T and Prokopec T 2006 Instabilities in the nonsymmetric theory of gravitation Class. Quantum Grav. 23 4967 [gr-qc/0604094]
28. Kahya EO and Woodard RP 2005 Charged scalar self-mass during inflation Phys. Rev. D 72 104001 [gr-qc/0508015]
29. Tsamis NC and Woodard RP 2006 A maximally symmetric vector propagator Preprint gr-qc/0608069
30. Spradlin M, Strominger A and Volovich A 2001 Les Houches lectures on de Sitter space Preprint hep-th/0110007
31. Allen B 1985 Vacuum states in de Sitter space Phys. Rev. D 32 3136
32. Allen B and Folacci A 1987 The massless minimally coupled scalar field in de Sitter space Phys. Rev. D 35 3771
33. Chernikov NA and Tagirov EA 1968 Quantum theory of scalar fields in de Sitter space-time Ann. Poincare Phys. Theor. A 9 109
34. Tsamis NC and Woodard RP 2006 Dimensionally regulated graviton 1-point function in de Sitter Ann. Phys., NY 321 875 [gr-qc/0506056]
35. Birrell ND and Davies PC W 1982 Quantum Fields in Curved Space (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p157
36. Coleman SR and Weinberg E 1973 Radiative corrections as the origin of spontaneous symmetry breaking Phys. Rev. D 7 1888
37. Kleinert H and Schulte-Frohlinde V 2001 Critical Properties of phi**4-theories (River Edge: World Scientific) p156
38. Faux M Notes on renormalization Available at http://www.math.columbia. edu/faux/geometry/renormalization.ps
39. Tsamis NC and Woodard RP 1996 Quantum gravity slows inflation Nucl. Phys. B 474 235 [hep-ph/9602315]
40. Tsamis NC and Woodard RP 1997 The quantum gravitational back-reaction on inflation Ann. Phys., NY 253 1 [hep-ph/9602316]
41. Abramo LR W, Brandenberger RH and Mukhanov VF 1997 The energy-momentum tensor for cosmological perturbations Phys. Rev. D 56 3248 [gr-qc/9704037]
42. Mottola E 1985 Particle creation in de Sitter space Phys. Rev. D 31 754
43. Embacher HG, Grubl G and Patek R 1986 Gauge invariant energy momentum tensor for massive QED Phys. Rev. D 33 1162
44. Ruegg H and Ruiz-Altaba M 2004 The Stueckelberg field Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 19 3265 [hep-th/0304245]