Causal structure and birefringence in nonlinear electrodynamics


Autoria(s): Melo, C. A. M. de; Medeiros, L. G.; Pompeia, P. J.
Contribuinte(s)

Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)

Data(s)

21/10/2015

21/10/2015

28/02/2015

Resumo

We investigate the causal structure of general nonlinear electrodynamics and determine which Lagrangians generate an effective metric conformal to Minkowski. We also prove that there is only one analytic nonlinear electrodynamics not presenting birefringence.

Formato

14

Identificador

http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S021773231550025X

Modern Physics Letters A, v. 30, n. 6, 14 p., 2015.

0217-7323

http://hdl.handle.net/11449/128976

http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S021773231550025X

WOS:000349849200003

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd

Relação

Modern Physics Letters A

Direitos

closedAccess

Palavras-Chave #Nonlinear electrodynamics #Effective metrics #Photon propagation
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/article