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Quadrupole anisotropy from photon quantum effects

Alexei V Nesteruk, Roy Maartens

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9511044

Abstract

We consider quantum effects of an electromagnetic field in a radiation-dominated almost FRW spacetime. The dominant non-local quantum correction to the photon distribution is a quadrupole moment, corresponding to an effective anisotropic pressure in the energy-momentum tensor.

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