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

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2005.09.045MaRDI QIDQ877284zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elisabeth Kant, F. R. Klinkhamer

Publication date 20 April 2007

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

curved spacetimelight propagationLorentz violation

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)

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.

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