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Quantum gravitational optics in the field of a gravitomagnetic monopole

N. Ahmadi, S. Khoeini-Moghaddam, M. Nouri-Zonoz

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0607135

Abstract

Vacuum polarization in QED in a background gravitational field induces interactions which effectively modify the classical picture of light rays as the null geodesics of spacetime. After a short introduction on the main aspects of the quantum gravitational optics, as a nontrivial example, we study this effect in the background of NUT space characterizing the spacetime of a spherical mass endowed with a gravitomagnetic monopole charge, the so called NUT factor.

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