Parity-violating gravitational coupling of electromagnetic fields

1999/06/30 by Parthasarathi Majumdar, Soumitra SenGupta · 100 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Einstein #Electromagnetic field #Gravitation #Gravitational field #Gravitational wave #Invariant (physics) #Lorenz gauge condition #Massless particle #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Torsion (gastropod) #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/16/12/102

published in Classical and Quantum Gravity 16(12), L89-L94 (IOP Publishing) · 7 Pages, Latex . no figures, Replaced with Revtex version, many references added and typos corrected

arxiv created 1999/07/10 · openalex publication_date 1999/11/24 · arxiv updated 2010/04/06 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

A manifestly gauge-invariant formulation of the coupling of the Maxwell theory with an Einstein-Cartan geometry is given, where the spacetime torsion originates from a massless Kalb-Ramond field augmented by suitable U (1) Chern-Simons terms. We focus on the situation where the torsion violates parity, and relate it to earlier proposals for gravitational parity violation.

Citations

• General relativity with spin and torsion: Foundations and prospects

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