Gravitational birefringence of light at cosmological scales
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2018-04-30 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
Birefringence of light induced not by matter, but by the gradient of an electric field, has been predicted in 1955 and observed in 2008. Here we replace the electric field by the gravitional field of our expanding universe.
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@article{arxiv.1804.10420,
title = {Gravitational birefringence of light at cosmological scales},
author = {Christian Duval and Thomas Schucker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.10420},
year = {2018}
}
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contribution to the Moriond conference on cosmology, La Thuile, March 17 - 24, 2018 4 pages, 2 figures