  Perturbative quantum gravity in the framework of the Schwinger-Keldysh
formalism is applied to compute lowest-order corrections to the actual
expansion of the Universe described in terms of the spatially flat
Friedman-Lematre-Robertson-Walker solution. The classical metric is
approximated by a third order polynomial perturbation around the Minkowski
metric. It is shown that the quantum contribution to the classical expansion,
although extremely small, has damping properties (quantum friction), i.e. it
slows down the expansion.
