Spacetime Foam and the Casimir Energy

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  • Remo Garattini
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We conjecture that the neutral black hole pair production is related to the vacuum fluctuation of pure gravity via the Casimir-like energy. A generalization of this process to a multi-black hole pair is considered. Implications on the foam-like structure of spacetime and on the cosmological constant are discussed.

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تاریخ انتشار 1999