Astrophysical limits on quantum gravity motivated birefringence
- 24 September 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 64 (8) , 083007
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.64.083007
Abstract
We obtain observational upper bounds on a class of quantum gravity related birefringence effects, by analyzing the presence of linear polarization in the optical and ultraviolet spectrum of some distant sources. In the notation of Gambini and Pullin we find
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