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Breaking de Sitter Symmetry with Cosmic Topology: Cosmological Role of Infrared Vacuum Freedom
Anna Negro, Kurt Hinterbichler, Glenn D. Starkman +5
When spatial sections of spacetime are topologically nontrivial, the symmetry arguments usually used to choose the Bunch-Davies vacuum are no longer guaranteed to apply. We study t…
hep-th2026
Quantum Signatures of Cosmic Topology: How Casimir Backreaction Transmits Isotropy Violation
Anna Negro, Kurt Hinterbichler, Glenn D. Starkman +17
A finite, scheme-independent Casimir contribution to the stress-energy tensor arises naturally for quantum fields in universes with non-trivial spatial topology. We compute this Ca…