How Does Quantum Vacuum Energy Accelerate?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-10-07 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We show that Casimir energy for a configuration of parallel plates gravitates according to the equivalence principle both for the finite and divergent parts. This shows that the latter can be absorbed by a process of renormalization.
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@article{arxiv.0810.0081,
title = {How Does Quantum Vacuum Energy Accelerate?},
author = {K. A. Milton and P. Parashar and J. Wagner and K. V. Shajesh and A. Romeo and S. Fulling},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0081},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Parallel talk at ICHEP08, Philadelphia, USA, July 2008. 4 pages, LaTeX. Changes are cosmetic only, to conform to new ICHEP requirements