Propagation of vacuum polarized photons in topological black hole spacetimes

Details Propagation of vacuum polarized photons in topological black hole spacetimes Propagation of vacuum polarized photons in topological black hole spacetimes

1998-01-29

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9801098v2

Nucl.Phys. B524 (1998) 639-657

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

18 pages, Revtex, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00274-0

The one-loop effective action for QED in curved spacetime contains equivalence principle violating interactions between the electromagnetic field and the spacetime curvature. These interactions lead to the dependence of photon velocity on the motion and polarization directions. In this paper we investigate the gravitational analogue to the electromagnetic birefringence phenomenon in the static and radiating topological black hole backgrounds, respectively. For the static topological black hole spacetimes, the velocity shift of photons is the same as the one in the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes. This reflects that the propagation of vacuum polarized photons is not sensitive to the asymptotic behavior and topological structure of spacetimes. For the massless topological black hole and BTZ black hole, the light cone condition keeps unchanged. In the radiating topological black hole backgrounds, the light cone condition is changed even for the radially directed photons. The velocity shifts depend on the topological structures. Due to the null fluid, the velocity shift of photons does no longer vanish at the apparent horizons as well as the event horizons. But the ``polarization sum rule'' is still valid.

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