Spacetime Foam and the Cosmological Constant

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.79.4071MaRDI QIDQ4492433zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Steven Carlip

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9708026

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: In the saddle point approximation, the Euclidean path integral for quantum gravity closely resembles a thermodynamic partition function, with the cosmological constant $Lambda$ playing the role of temperature and the ``density of topologies acting as an effective density of states. For $Lambda<0$, the density of topologies grows superexponentially, and the sum over topologies diverges. In thermodynamics, such a divergence can signal the existence of a maximum temperature. The same may be true in quantum gravity: the effective cosmological constant may be driven to zero by a rapid rise in the density of topologies.

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