2010/03/31 by Ratindranath Akhoury, Akhoury, Ratindranath, Alexander D. Dolgov +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1003.6110
11 pages
arxiv created 2010/03/31 · arxiv updated 2010/04/01
We argue that superluminal propagation in a gravitational field discovered by Drummond and Hathrell in the lowest order of perturbation theory remains intact in higher orders. The criticism of this result based on an exact calculation of the one loop correction to the photon polarization operator in the Penrose plane wave approximation is not tenable. The statement that quantum causality is automatically imposed by classical causality is possibly invalid due to the infrared nature of the same triangle diagram which also contributes to the quantum trace anomaly.