Faster than light' photons and charged black holes

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1993-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9310114v2

Nucl.Phys.B425:634-650,1994

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

17pages, SWAT 93-9, UGVA-DPT 1993/08-830 (includes three macros undefined in originally submitted version)

Scientific paper

10.1016/0550-3213(94)90291-7

Photons propagating in curved spacetime may, depending on their direction and polarisation, have velocities exceeding the ``speed of light'' c. This phenomenon arises through vacuum polarisation in QED and is a tidal gravitational effect depending on the local curvature. It implies that the Principle of Equivalence does not hold for interacting quantum field theories in curved spacetime and reflects a quantum violation of local Lorentz invariance. These results are illustrated for the propagation of photons in the Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime characterising a charged black hole. A general analysis of electromagnetic as well as gravitational birefringence is presented.

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