Superluminal velocity of photons in a gravitational background

1994/11/20 by И. Б. Хриплович, I. B. Khriplovich · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Classical mechanics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Gravitational wave #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #Optics #Photon #Physics #Superluminal motion #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(94)01679-7

published as Phys.Lett. B346 (1995) 251-254 · 5 pages, LaTeX

arxiv created 1994/11/20 · openalex publication_date 1995/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The influence of radiative corrections on the photon propagation in a gravitational background is investigated without the low-frequency approximation ω≪ m. The conclusion is made in this way that the velocity of light can exceed unity.

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