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 . We then study, for the case of isotropic , 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.
Cite
@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