Does a Kalb-Ramond field make spacetime optically active

Details Does a Kalb-Ramond field make spacetime optically active Does a Kalb-Ramond field make spacetime optically active

2000-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0006097v2

Eur.Phys.J.C23:357-361,2002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Revised version with several additions and deletions

Scientific paper

10.1007/s100520100872

A spacetime with torsion produced by a Kalb-Ramond field coupled gravitationally to the Maxwell field, in accordance with a recent proposal by two of us (PM and SS), is argued to lead to an optical activity in synchrotron radiation from cosmologically distant radio sources. We suggest that this could qualitatively explain observational data from a large number of radio sources displaying such polarization asymmetry (after eliminating effects of Faraday rotation due to magnetized galactic plasma). Possible implications for heterotic string theory are also outlined.

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