Polarization diffusion from spacetime uncertainty

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/17/172001MaRDI QIDQ4933024zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fay Dowker, Lydia Philpott, Carlo R. Contaldi

Publication date 7 October 2010

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.4545

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologygravitational interactiongravitational waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: A model of Lorentz invariant random fluctuations in photon polarization is presented. The effects are frequency dependent and affect the polarization of photons as they propagate through space. We test for this effect by confronting the model with the latest measurements of polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons.

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