Propagation of light in a Maxwell-like gravitational field

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Mar 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982ap%26ss..82..473m&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 82, no. 2, Mar. 1982, p. 473-476.

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Optics

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Electrodynamics, Electromagnetic Fields, Geometrical Optics, Gravitational Fields, Light Transmission, Maxwell Equation, Einstein Equations, Photons, Polarized Radiation, Wave Propagation

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A coupling between gravitational and electromagnetic fields is proposed which will permit consideration of the electrodynamical Maxwell's equations as basic, with the addition of the gravitational potential four-vector to the differential operators occurring in the equations. It is shown that, by means of this coupling, all tests of Einstein's theory of gravitation having reference to the propagation of light in a gravitational field can be calculated. It is noted that even the differential deflection of right- and left-circularly polarized radiation passing the sun, which has been proposed by Harwit (1974) as a test of Einstein's theory beyond the approximation of geometrical optics, may in principle be calculated by means of one of the equations presented.

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