Numerical Bianchi I solutions in semi-classical gravitation

Abstract

It is believed that soon after the Planck era, spacetime should have a semi-classical nature. In this context we consider quantum fields propagating in a classical gravitational field and study the backreaction of these fields, using the expected value of the energy-momentum tensor as source of the gravitational field. According to this theory, the escape from General Relativity theory is unavoidable. Two geometric counter-term are needed to regularize the divergences which come from the expected value. There is a parameter associated to each counter-term and in this work we found numerical solutions of this theory to particular initial conditions, for general Bianchi Type I spaces. We show that even though there are spurious solutions some of them can be considered physical. These physical solutions include de Sitter and Minkowski that are obtained asymptotically.

Accepted for publication in PRD. More references included, a few modifications in the text

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