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gr-qc2008★ 90 cited

Infrared Propagator Corrections for Constant Deceleration

T. M. Janssen, S. P. Miao, T. Prokopec +1

We derive the propagator for a massless, minimally coupled scalar on a -dimensional, spatially flat, homogeneous and isotropic background with arbitrary constant deceleration pa…

gr-qc2008★ 39 cited

Black Hole Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Steven Carlip

We have known for more than thirty years that black holes behave as thermodynamic systems, radiating as black bodies with characteristic temperatures and entropies. This behavior i…

gr-qc2008★ 10 cited

Graviton one-loop effective action and inflationary dynamics

Tomas Janssen, Shun-Pei Miao, Tomislav Prokopec

We consider the one-loop effective action due to gravitons in a FLRW background with constant epsilon=-(dH/dt)/H^2. By expanding around epsilon=0 (corresponding to an expansion aro…

gr-qc2008★ 14 cited

The graviton one-loop effective action in cosmological space-times with constant deceleration

Tomas Janssen, Tomislav Prokopec

We consider the quantum Friedmann equations which include one-loop vacuum fluctuations due to gravitons and scalar field matter in a FLRW background with constant $ε=-{\dot{H}}/{H^…

gr-qc2008★ 16 cited

The Self-Organized de Sitter Universe

J. Ambjorn, J. Jurkiewicz, R. Loll

We propose a theory of quantum gravity which formulates the quantum theory as a nonperturbative path integral, where each spacetime history appears with a weight given by the expon…

gr-qc2008★ 13 cited

Resolving Curvature Singularities in Holomorphic Gravity

Christiaan L. M. Mantz, Tomislav Prokopec

We formulate holomorphic theory of gravity and study how the holomorphy symmetry alters the two most important singular solutions of general relativity: black holes and cosmology.…