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Phys. Rev. D 74, 063508 (2006) [6 pages]

Numerical Bianchi type I solutions in semiclassical gravitation

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Sandro D. P. Vitenti*
Instituto de Física, UnB, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Cxp 04455, 70919-970, Brasília DF, Brasil

Daniel Müller
Instituto de Física, UnB, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Cxp 04455, 70919-970, Brasília DF, Brasil

Received 7 March 2006; published 8 September 2006

It is believed that soon after the Planck era, spacetime should have a semiclassical 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.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.74.063508
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.063508
PACS:
98.80.Cq

*Electronic address: vitenti@isoftware.com.br

Electronic address: muller@fis.unb.br