On the gravitational field acting as an optical medium

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Dec 1971

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General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 2, Issue 4, pp.347-357

Physics

Optics

35

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Given a curved space-time with a metric tensorg ij, Maxwell's equations may be written as if they were valid in a flat space-time in which there is an optical medium with a constitutive equation. When optical phenomena are considered, this medium turns out to be equivalent to the gravitational field. Optical phenomena in various gravitational fields are analysed and we find that the language of classical optics for the ‘equivalent medium’ is as suitable as that of Riemannian geometry.

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