Quantum Instability of de Sitter Space
Physical Review Letters1986Vol. 56(13), pp. 1319–1322
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Abstract
The graviton propagator in a de Sitter background is found to be divergent. We show that as a consequence of this divergence, de Sitter space is not a solution of the equations of motion of the complete theory. If we start from de Sitter space as a classical ground state, quantum corrections change it into flat Minkowski space.
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