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Astrophysical limits on gauge invariance breaking in electrodynamics with torsion

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General relativistic electrodynamics in a torsion background can give rise to a situation where the photons can ahve a non-zero rest mass and magnetic moment. Astrophysical limits are used to constrain these parameters.

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  1. Grupo de Relatividade e Teória do Campo, Instituto de Física, UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

    C. Sivaram

  2. Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India

    C. Sivaram

  3. Istituto de Fisica dell'a Universita, Ferrara, Italia

    C. Sivaram

  4. Grupo de Relatividade e Teória do Campo, Instituto de Física, UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

    L. C. Garica de Andrade

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Sivaram, C., Garica de Andrade, L.C. Astrophysical limits on gauge invariance breaking in electrodynamics with torsion. Astrophys Space Sci 201, 121–123 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00626980

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