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EAS Publications Series
Volume 30, 2008
Spanish Relativity Meeting - Encuentros Relativistas Españoles , ERE2007: Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology
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| Page(s) | 149 - 156 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:0830017 | |
| Published online | 30 September 2008 | |
A. Oscoz, E. Mediavilla and M. Serra-Ricart (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 30 (2008) 149-156
Cosmological Imprint of Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations
Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio
(CSIC), Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC/CSIC),
Campus UAB, Facultat de Ciències, Torre C5-Parell-2a planta,
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain; http://www.ieec.fcr.es/english/recerca/ftc/eli/eli.htm
Corresponding author: elizalde@ieec.uab.es
It was Zel'dovich who first clearly realized the importance of quantum vacuum fluctuations in connection with cosmology. Since then, this issue has been more a problem than a solution, even if the acceleration of the universe expansion could, in principle, be easily explained by resorting to it. We have calculated those contributions in a number of different models. Under some specific conditions, the results look promising, although a general acceptable solution looks still far from reach.
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