Quantum vacuum energy and singularity-free Kaluza-Klein cosmology |
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Authors: | T Koikawa M Yoshimura |
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Institution: | National Laboratory for High Energy Physics (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan |
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Abstract: | We present a class of cosmological models in which vacuum collapse to curvature singularity is prevented by the generalized gravitational Casimir energy. The mechanism works in higher dimensions, and gives rise to Kaluza-Klein cosmologies free from singularity. |
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