Equivalence principles, spacetime structure and the cosmic connection

DOI10.1142/S0218271816300020zbMATH Open1337.78002arXiv1512.08426OpenAlexW2285066029MaRDI QIDQ2809074FDOQ2809074

Authors: Wei-Tou Ni 

Publication date: 27 May 2016

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

Abstract: After reviewing the meaning of various equivalence principles and the structure of electrodynamics, we give a fairly detailed account of the construction of the light cone and a core metric from the equivalence principle for the photon (no birefringence, no polarization rotation and no amplification/attenuation in propagation) in the framework of linear electrodynamics using cosmic connections/observations as empirical support. The cosmic nonbirefringent propagation of photons independent of energy and polarization verifies the Galileo Equivalence Principle [Universality of Propagation] for photons/electromagnetic wave packets in spacetime. This nonbirefringence constrains the spacetime constitutive tensor to high precision to a core metric form with an axion degree and a dilaton degree of freedom. Thus comes the metric with axion and dilation. Constraints on axion and dilaton from astrophysical/cosmic propagation are reviewed. E"otv"os-type experiments, Hughes-Drever-type experiments, redshift experiments then constrain and tie this core metric to agree with the matter metric, and hence a unique physical metric and universality of metrology. We summarize these experiments and review how the Galileo equivalence principle constrains the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP) theoretically. In local physics this physical metric gives the Lorentz/Poincar'e covariance. Understanding that the metric and EEP come from the vacuum as a medium of electrodynamics in the linear regime, efforts to actively look for potential effects beyond this linear scheme are warranted.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.08426

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zbMATH Keywords

classical electrodynamicspolarizationgeneral relativityspinequivalence principlesspacetime structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory (78-02)

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