Relativistic generalised uncertainty and the corrected vacuum energy

Abstract

In this short paper we make use of the recent covariant extension of the generalised uncertainty principle to study the corrections to the vacuum energy of the simplest scalar quantum field theory. We then calculate the modifications to the Casimir effect that such a correction to the vacuum energy would bring about. We emphasise that these corrections are indeed physical.

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