Space Time Foam: a ground state candidate for Quantum Gravity
arXiv:gr-qc/0110074 · doi:10.1088/1464-4266/4/4/307
Abstract
A model of space-time foam, made by wormholes is considered. The Casimir energy leading to such a model is computed by means of the phase shift method which is in agreement with the variational approach used in Refs.[9-14]. The collection of Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordström wormholes are separately considered to represent the foam. The Casimir energy shows that the Reissner-Nordström wormholes cannot be used to represent the foam.
6 pages.RevTeX with package epsf and two eps figures. To be submitted to the proceedings of the 4th Workshop of `Mysteries, Puzzles And Paradoxes In Quantum Mechanics' Gargnano (Italy), 27 August-1 September 2001
References in corpus (6)
- Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability and Negative Modes in Schwarzschild-Anti-de Sitter
- Black hole pair creation in de Sitter space: a complete one-loop analysis
- A Spacetime Foam approach to the cosmological constant and entropy
- Entropy from the foam
- Entropy and the cosmological constant: a spacetime-foam approach
- Vacuum Energy, Variational Methods and the Casimir Energy