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Cosmic Polarisation Rotation from CMB Data: a Review for GR110

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-04-01 v2

Abstract

We provide an update on the work of di Serego Alighieri (2015), focusing on recent developments regarding constraints on Cosmic Polarization Rotation (CPR), also known as Cosmic Birefringence (CB), derived from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization data.

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@article{arxiv.2502.07743,
  title  = {Cosmic Polarisation Rotation from CMB Data: a Review for GR110},
  author = {Alessandro Gruppuso and Sperello di Serego Alighieri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.07743},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages, 1 table. To appear in International Journal of Modern Physics D. This paper will also be published in the book "One Hundred and Ten Years of General Relativity: From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology, and Quantum Gravity", edited by Wei-Tou Ni (World Scientific, Singapore, 2025)