COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT AND THE SPEED OF LIGHT

DOI10.1142/S0218271801001116MaRDI QIDQ3376488zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 23 March 2006

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0006098

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric optics (78A05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: By exploring the relationship between the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a gravitational field and the light propagation in a refractive medium, it is shown that, in the presence of a positive cosmological constant, the velocity of light will be smaller than its special relativity value. Then, restricting again to the domain of validity of geometrical optics, the same result is obtained in the context of wave optics. It is argued that this phenomenon and the anisotropy in the velocity of light in a gravitational field are produced by the same mechanism.

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