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Semiclassical back reaction around a cosmic dislocation
The energy-momentum vacuum average of a conformally coupled massless scalar
field vibrating around a cosmic dislocation (a cosmic string with a dislocation
along its axis) is taken as source of the linearized semiclassical Einstein
equations. The solution up to first order in the Planck constant is derived.
Motion of a test particle is then discussed, showing that under certain
circumstances a helical-like dragging effect, with no classical analogue around
the cosmic dislocation, is induced by back reaction.Comment: Published version, 4 pages, no figures, REVTeX4 fil
Light propagation in non linear electrodynamics
Working on the approximation of low frequency, we present the light cone
conditions for a class of theories constructed with the two gauge invariants of
the Maxwell field without making use of average over polarization states.
Different polarization states are thus identified describing birefringence
phenomena. We make an application of the formalism to the case of
Euler-Heisenberg effective Lagrangian and well know results are obtained.Comment: 3 pages, latex, no figures (to appear in Phys. Lett. B
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