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Quantized fields (e.g., the graviton itself) in de Sitter (dS) spacetime lead to particle production: specifically, we consider a thermal spectrum resulting from the dS (horizon) temperature. The energy required to excite these particles reduces slightly the rate of expansion and eventually modifies the semiclassical spacetime geometry. The resulting manifold no longer has constant curvature nor time reversal invariance, and backreaction renders the classical dS background unstable to perturbations. In the case of AdS, there exists a global static vacuum state; in this state there is no particle production and the analogous instability does not arise.
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Ho, C.M., Hsu, S.D.H. Instability of quantum de Sitter spacetime. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 86 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2015)086
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