Instability of flatspace and the origin of conformal fluctuations

Padmanabhan, T. (1983) Instability of flatspace and the origin of conformal fluctuations Physics Letters A, 93 (3). pp. 116-118. ISSN 0375-9601

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Abstract

It is shown that conformal fluctuations in the metric can be initiated by the vacuum fluctuations of a scalar field with mass greater than the Planck mass. Flatspace is unstable against such fluctuations.

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