English

de Sitter Space is Unstable in Quantum Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-01-04 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Graviton loop corrections to observables in de Sitter space often lead to infrared divergences. We show that these infrared divergences are resolved by the spontaneous breaking of de Sitter invariance.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.07237,
  title  = {de Sitter Space is Unstable in Quantum Gravity},
  author = {Arvind Rajaraman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07237},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

13 pages, references added

R2 v1 2026-06-22T15:31:06.586Z