Cosmic optical activity from an inhomogeneous Kalb–Ramond field

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DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/4/304zbMATH Open0997.83090arXivhep-th/0109135OpenAlexW2055873511MaRDI QIDQ4330262FDOQ4330262


Authors: Sayan Kar, Parthasarathi Majumdar, Soumitra Sengupta, Saurabh Sur Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 15 May 2002

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

Abstract: The effects of introducing a harmonic spatial inhomogeneity into the Kalb-Ramond field, interacting with the Maxwell field according to a `string-inspired' proposal made in earlier work are investigated. We examine in particular the effects on the polarization of synchrotron radiation from cosmologically distant (i.e. of redshift greater than 2) galaxies, as well as the relation between the electric and magnetic components of the radiation field. The rotation of the polarization plane of linearly polarized radiation is seen to acquire an additional contribution proportional to the square of the frequency of the dual Kalb-Ramond axion wave, assuming that it is far smaller compared to the frequency of the radiation field.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0109135




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