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Quantum vacuum and accelerated expansion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2009

E. Pécontal ,
T. Buchert ,
Ph. Di Stefano ,
Y. Copin ,
B. Broda  and
M. Szanecki
B. Broda*
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Łódź, Pomorska 149/153, 90–236 Łódź, Poland
M. Szanecki
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Łódź, Pomorska 149/153, 90–236 Łódź, Poland
*
[email protected] ; [email protected]
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Abstract

A new approach to extraction of quantum vacuum energy, in the context of the accelerated expansion, is proposed, and it is shown that experimentally realistic orders of values can be derived. The idea has been implemented in the framework of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker geometry in the language of the effective action in the relativistic formalism of Schwinger's proper time and Seeley–DeWitt's heat kernel expansion.

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European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 36: Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Observations, Experiments and Theories , 2009 , pp. 167 - 171
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© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2009

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