Vacuum Quantum Fluctuations in Curved Space and the Theory of Gravitation

2000/02/01 by A. D. Sakharov · 1 voice · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Relativity and Gravitational Theory

paper · doi:10.1023/a:1001947813563

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Discussions

• Is there a problem with simply treating the metric in the Standard Model Lagrangian as a dynamical variable? This is close to an idea of induced gravity formulated by Sakharov in 1967: gravitational d [stackexchange, 2 points]