Semiclassical Perdurance of de Sitter Space

Ginsparg, Paul H.; Perry, Malcolm J.

doi:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90636-3

Semiclassical Perdurance of de Sitter Space

Paul H. Ginsparg
(
- Harvard U.
)
,
Malcolm J. Perry
(
- Princeton U.
)

Nov, 1982

24 pages

Published in:

Nucl.Phys.B 222 (1983) 245-268

Published: 1983

DOI:

10.1016/0550-3213(83)90636-3

Report number:

HUTP-82/A035

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We investigate the classical and semiclassical instabilities of de Sitter space. Due to the presence of a cosmological event horizon and its associated Hawking temperature, de Sitter space might be expected to behave in some respects like flat space at finite temperature. We use the euclidean formulation of quantum gravity to show that de Sitter space does exhibit a semiclassical instability to the nucleation of black holes. We find, however, no analog to the classical instability due to gravitational clumping of thermally excited gravitons.

QUANTUM GRAVITY
Einstein equation
MODEL: ASTROPHYSICS
POSTULATED PARTICLE: GRAVITON

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