Maxwell--Chern--Simons theory for curved spacetime backgrounds

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.09.045zbMATH Open1192.83029arXivhep-th/0507162OpenAlexW2022206931MaRDI QIDQ877284FDOQ877284

Authors: Elisabeth Kant, F. R. Klinkhamer 

Publication date: 20 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a modified version of four-dimensional electrodynamics, which has a photonic Chern-Simons-like term with spacelike background vector in the action. Light propagation in curved spacetime backgrounds is discussed using the geometrical-optics approximation. The corresponding light path is modified, which allows for new effects. In a Schwarzschild background, for example, there now exist stable bounded orbits of light rays and the two polarization modes of light rays in unbounded orbits can have different gravitational redshifts. An Erratum with important corrections has been published, which appears as Appendix E in this arXiv version.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0507162

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zbMATH Keywords

curved spacetimeLorentz violationlight propagation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

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