Lorentz-Violating Electrodynamics and the Cosmic Microwave Background

2007/02/28 by V. Alan Kostelecký, Alan Kostelecky, Matthew Mewes · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #astro-ph #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.99.011601

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.99:011601,2007 · 4 pages two-column REVTeX, accepted in Physical Review Letters

arxiv created 2007/05/24 · openalex publication_date 2007/07/03 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Possible Lorentz-violating effects in the cosmic microwave background are studied. We provide a systematic classification of renormalizable and nonrenormalizable operators for Lorentz violation in electrodynamics and use polarimetric observations to search for the associated violations.

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