Instability of flat space and origin of conformal fluctuations
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1983-01-03
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Elsevier Science Publishers
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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Instability of flat space, Vacuum fluctuations, Origin of conformal fluctuations, Planck mass