Instability thresholds for de Sitter and Minkowski spacetimes in holographic semiclassical gravity
This paper investigates the stability thresholds of de Sitter and Minkowski spacetimes in holographic semiclassical gravity across dimensions d=3,4,5, revealing that stability depends critically on the spacetime dimension and a specific dimensionless parameter γd, with Minkowski spacetime being universally unstable in d=3, both spacetimes becoming unstable in d=4 beyond a critical threshold, and both remaining stable in d=5 except where higher-curvature corrections dominate.
Akihiro Ishibashi, Kengo Maeda, Takashi Okamura2026-03-06🔬 physics