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On low-energy quantum gravity induced effects on the propagation of light

Reinaldo J Gleiser, Carlos N Kozameh and Florencia Parisi

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Present models describing the interaction of quantum Maxwell and gravitational fields predict a breakdown of Lorentz invariance and a non-standard dispersion relation in the semiclassical approximation. Comparison with observational data, however, does not support their predictions. In this work we introduce a different set of ab initio assumptions in the canonical approach, namely that the homogeneous Maxwell equations are valid in the semiclassical approximation, and find that the resulting field equations are Lorentz invariant in the semiclassical limit. We also include a phenomenological analysis of possible effects on the propagation of light, and their dependence on energy, in a cosmological context.


PACS

04.60.-m Quantum gravity

11.10.Ef Lagrangian and Hamiltonian approach

04.25.-g Approximation methods; equations of motion

11.30.Cp Lorentz and Poincare invariance

MSC

83C50 Electromagnetic fields

83C10 Equations of motion

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 20 (21 October 2003)

Received 11 April 2003

Published 12 September 2003



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