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Numerical Bianchi I solutions in semi-classical gravitation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-07-19 v2

Abstract

It is believed that soon after the Planck era, spacetime should have a semi-classical nature. In this context we consider quantum fields propagating in a classical gravitational field and study the backreaction of these fields, using the expected value of the energy-momentum tensor as source of the gravitational field. According to this theory, the escape from General Relativity theory is unavoidable. Two geometric counter-term are needed to regularize the divergences which come from the expected value. There is a parameter associated to each counter-term and in this work we found numerical solutions of this theory to particular initial conditions, for general Bianchi Type I spaces. We show that even though there are spurious solutions some of them can be considered physical. These physical solutions include de Sitter and Minkowski that are obtained asymptotically.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0604127,
  title  = {Numerical Bianchi I solutions in semi-classical gravitation},
  author = {Sandro P. Vitenti and Daniel Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0604127},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in PRD. More references included, a few modifications in the text

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