Dark Energy and Condensate Stars: Casimir Energy in the Large
| dc.creator | Mazur, Pawel O. | |
| dc.creator | Mottola, Emil | |
| dc.date | 2004-05-19 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:28:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:28:43Z | |
| dc.description | Vacuum fluctuations and the Casimir effect are considered in a cosmological setting. It is suggested that the dark energy, which recent observations suggest make up 73% of our universe, is vacuum energy due to a causal boundary effect at the cosmological horizon. After a discussion of the similarities and differences between material boundaries in flat spacetime and causal horizons in general relativity, a simple model with a purely vacuum energy de Sitter interior and Schwarzschild exterior, separated by a thin boundary layer is outlined. The boundary layer is a quantum transition region which replaces the event horizons of the classical de Sitter and Schwarzschild solutions, through which the vacuum energy changes. | |
| dc.description | Contributed talk at the Sixth Workshop on 'Quantum Field Theory Under The Influence Of External Conditions' held at the Univ. of Oklahoma, September 15-19, 2003, to be published in the Proceedings by Rinton Press (2004) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0405111 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0405111 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/34937 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Dark Energy and Condensate Stars: Casimir Energy in the Large | |
| dc.type | text |