Authors: Emilio Santos
Publish Date: 2010/12/18
Volume: 50, Issue: 7, Pages: 2125-2133
Abstract
It is shown that quantum vacuum fluctuations give rise to a curvature of spacetime of the order appropriate to explain the observed accelerated expansion of the universe The fact that the fluctuations produce curvature even if the expectation of the vacuum energy vanishes is a consequence of the nonlinear character of the Einstein equation A calculation is made involving plausible hypotheses within quantized gravity which establishes a relation between the twopoint correlation of the vacuum fluctuations and the spacetime curvature
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