Gravitational closure of weakly birefringent electrodynamics

Autor:	Schneider, Jonas, Schuller, Frederic P., Stritzelberger, Nadine, Wolz, Florian
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	High Energy Physics - Theory General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We derive the gravitational dynamics of the tensorial geometry which underlies the most general linear theory of electrodynamics that features weak birefringence in vacuo. This derivation is performed by way of gravitational closure, which is a mechanism that employs the causal structure of any canonically quantizable matter dynamics on some tensorial spacetime geometry in order to derive canonical dynamics for the latter. The resulting eleven-parameter family of weak gravitational field equations allows to predict where vacuum birefringence will occur, if there is any. Comment: 32 pages, no figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03870 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv