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We study the effects of a fixed de Sitter geometry background in scenarios of false vacuum decay. It is currently understood that bubble nucleation processes associated with first order phase transitions are particularly important in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-12 Juan S. Cruz , Stephan Brandt , Maximilian Urban

Large corrections to the inflationary tensor power spectrum have been speculated to emerge either as second-order scalar-induced classical effects, or as 1-loop quantum corrections. These two sources are not independent of each other.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 A. Hauser , M. Laine

Some of the recent work on quantum gravity has involved modified uncertainty relations such that the products of the uncertainties of certain pairs of observables increase with time. It is here observed that this type of modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 G. Amelino-Camelia

We determine corrections to the Hubble rate due to graviton loops in a cosmological background spacetime of constant deceleration parameter. The corrections are gauge-invariant, based on a recent proposal for all-order gauge-invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-15 Markus B. Fröb

It is known that infrared (IR) quantum fluctuations in de Sitter space could break the de Sitter symmetry and generate time dependent observable effects. In this paper, we consider a dilaton-gravity theory. We find that gravitational IR…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-21 Chong-Sun Chu , Yoji Koyama

We continue our study on corrections from canonical quantum gravity to the power spectra of gauge-invariant inflationary scalar and tensor perturbations. A direct canonical quantization of a perturbed inflationary universe model is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-02 David Brizuela , Claus Kiefer , Manuel Kraemer

We calculate IR divergent graviton one-loop corrections to scalar correlators in de Sitter space, and show that the leading IR contribution may be reproduced via simple semiclassical consistency relations. One can likewise use such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 Steven B. Giddings , Martin S. Sloth

It is shown that the rate of corrections to the hydrogen atom and harmonic oscillator due to profound quantum-gravitational effect of space-time dimension running/reduction coincides well with those obtained by means of the minimum-length…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael Maziashvili , Zurab Silagadze

We consider a model of modified gravity from the nonperturbative quantization of a metric. We obtain the modified gravitational field equations and the modified conservational equations. We apply it to the FLRW spacetime and find that due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-20 Rong-Jia Yang

We employ an unregulated computation the graviton self-energy from gravitons on de Sitter background to infer the renormalized result. This is used to quantum-correct the linearized Einstein equation. We solve this equation for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-11 L. Tan , N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

We employ the graviton self-energy induced by a massless, minimally coupled (MMC) scalar on de Sitter background to compute the quantum corrections to the gravitational potentials of a static point particle with a mass $M$. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-17 Sohyun Park , Tomislav Prokopec , R. P. Woodard

When gravity is quantized, there inevitably exist quantum gravitational vacuum fluctuations which induce quadrupole moments in gravitationally polarizable objects and produce a quantum correction to the classical Newtonian interaction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-04 Puxun Wu , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

Backreactions are considered in a de Sitter spacetime whose cosmological constant is generated by the potential of scalar field. The leading order gravitational effect of nonlinear matter fluctuations is analyzed and it is found that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Losic , W. G. Unruh

A class of diffeomorphism invariant, physical observables, so-called astrometric observables, is introduced. A particularly simple example, the time delay, which expresses the difference between two initially synchronized proper time clocks…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-26 Igor Khavkine

We explore the weak-field phenomenology of a compact star spacetime modified by quantum gravitational corrections derived from the effective field theoretical (EFT) approach by Calmet et al. [1]. These corrections, encoded in non-local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Ovgun , Gaetano Lambiase

We study the radiation emitted by inertial charge evolving on the expanding de Sitter spacetime. Performing a perturbative calculation, within scalar quantum electrodynamics (sQED), we obtain the transition amplitude for the process and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Robert Blaga , Sergiu Busuioc

Quantum gravity is expected to contain descriptions of semiclassical spacetime geometries in quantum superpositions. To date, no framework for modelling such superpositions has been devised. Here, we provide a new phenomenological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Joshua Foo , Robert B. Mann , Magdalena Zych

We consider the effective theory of perturbative quantum gravity coupled to a point particle, quantizing fluctuations of both the gravitational field and the particle's position around flat space. Using a recent relational approach to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 M. B. Fröb , C. Rein , R. Verch

In this work, we compute the gravitational wave displacement and spin memory effects in de Sitter spacetime. Gravitational waves in asymptotically flat spacetimes are described by the Bondi-Sachs framework, where radiation at null infinity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Anthi Voulgari Revof , Shubhanshu Tiwari

The instability of (quasi) de Sitter spacetime from quantum gravitational effects has been discussed in many works. Especially, the gravitational backreaction from quantum energy momentum tensor is crucial for understanding the low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-08 Hiroki Matsui