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Electromagnetic fields with vanishing quantum corrections

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-03-09 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We show that a large class of null electromagnetic fields are immune to any modifications of Maxwell's equations in the form of arbitrary powers and derivatives of the field strength. These are thus exact solutions to virtually any generalized classical electrodynamics containing both non-linear terms and higher derivatives, including, e.g., non-linear electrodynamics as well as QED- and string-motivated effective theories. This result holds not only in a flat or (anti-)de Sitter background, but also in a larger subset of Kundt spacetimes, which allow for the presence of aligned gravitational waves and pure radiation.

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@article{arxiv.1708.08017,
  title  = {Electromagnetic fields with vanishing quantum corrections},
  author = {Marcello Ortaggio and Vojtěch Pravda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.08017},
  year   = {2018}
}

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