A Local Effective Action for Photon-Gravity Interactions

Details A Local Effective Action for Photon-Gravity Interactions A Local Effective Action for Photon-Gravity Interactions

2002-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0205042v1

Nucl.Phys. B646 (2002) 281-300

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

22 pages, 9 figures, harvmac TeX

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00833-7

Quantum phenomena such as vacuum polarisation in curved spacetime induce interactions between photons and gravity with quite striking consequences, including the violation of the strong equivalence principle and the apparent prediction of `superluminal' photon propagation. These quantum interactions can be encoded in an effective action. In this paper, we extend previous results on the effective action for QED in curved spacetime due to Barvinsky, Vilkovisky and others and present a new, local effective action valid to all orders in a derivative expansion, as required for a full analysis of the quantum theory of high-frequency photon propagation in gravitational fields.

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