2011/11/16 by H. M. Fried, Fried, H. M., Y. Gabellini +1
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1111.3903
13 pages, one Figure. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:hep-th/0310095 and arXiv:hep-th/0303108 We have just found a much better way of treating both dark Energy and Inflation, and would like to submit these as separate papers. The first manuscript is now ready for submission to arXiv; its title is: "QED Vacuum Loops and Dark Energy"
openalex publication_date 2011/11/16 · arxiv created 2013/02/24 · arxiv updated 2015/03/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A QED-based symmetry breaking/bootstrap mechanism, appearing at sufficiently small space-time distances, is suggested as an explanation for the vacuum energy that furnished the initial impulse for Inflation, and continues on, to the present day, to provide the "Dark Energy" which is apparently forcing our Universe apart. Very high frequency virtual vacuum currents are assumed to generate weak, effective electromagnetic fields, corresponding to the appearance of an effective 4-potential Avac (x), which is itself equal to the vacuum expectation value of the operator A(x) in the presence of that Avac (x). Lorentz invariance is manifest, as every observer would measure the same electric field in his or her own reference frame. Such an effective vacuum field would have no relevance to the motion of ordinary charged particules until particle energies on the order of 105 TeV are possible. The model is sufficiently constrained so that one parameter is needed to fit the vacuum energy densities and relevant times for the onset and end of Inflation, as well as those parameters of present day Dark Energy.