Lorentz-violating electrodynamics and the cosmic microwave background
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Possible Lorentz-violating effects in the cosmic microwave background are studied. We provide a systematic classification of renormalizable and nonrenormalizable operators for Lorentz violation in electrodynamics and use polarimetric observations to search for the associated violations.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0702379,
title = {Lorentz-violating electrodynamics and the cosmic microwave background},
author = {Alan Kostelecky and Matthew Mewes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0702379},
year = {2008}
}
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4 pages two-column REVTeX, accepted in Physical Review Letters