The Minkowski quantum vacuum does not gravitate

We show that a non-zero renormalised value of the zero-point energy in λϕ4-theory over Minkowski spacetime is in tension with the scalar-field equation at two-loop order in perturbation theory.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Viacheslav A. Emelyanov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-09-01
Series:Nuclear Physics B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321319301804