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Electromagnetism with dimension-five operators

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-11-19 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We derive, in curved spacetime, the most general Lorentz-violating electromagnetic Lagrangian containing dimension-five operators with one more derivative than the Maxwell term in the hypothesis that Lorentz symmetry is broken by a background four-vector nμn_\mu. We then study, for the case of isotropic nμn_\mu, the generation of cosmic magnetic fields at inflation and cosmic birefringence. In the limiting case of Minkowski spacetime, we find that other than the CPT-odd Myers-Pospelov term, there exists another CPT-odd term that gives rise to nontrivial dispersion and constitutive relations.

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@article{arxiv.1409.6867,
  title  = {Electromagnetism with dimension-five operators},
  author = {Leonardo Campanelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6867},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

7 pages, no figures, typos corrected, version matching the published one in Physical Review D

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