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Cosmological Imprint of Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2008

A. Oscoz ,
E. Mediavilla ,
M. Serra-Ricart  and
E. Elizalde
E. Elizalde*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (CSIC), Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC/CSIC), Campus UAB, Facultat de Ciències, Torre C5-Parell-2a planta, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain; http://www.ieec.fcr.es/english/recerca/ftc/eli/eli.htm
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elizalde@ieec.uab.es
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Abstract

It was Zel'dovich who first clearly realized the importance of quantum vacuum fluctuations in connection with cosmology. Since then, this issue has been more a problem than a solution, even if the acceleration of the universe expansion could, in principle, be easily explained by resorting to it. We have calculated those contributions in a number of different models. Under some specific conditions, the results look promising, although a general acceptable solution looks still far from reach.

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European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 30: Spanish Relativity Meeting - Encuentros Relativistas Españoles , ERE2007: Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology , 2008 , pp. 149 - 156
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© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2008

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