Maxwell's field coupled nonminimally to quadratic torsion: Axion and birefringence

Physical Review D

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Itin, Yakov ^a   Hehl, Friedrich W ^b,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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EID: 0842325906     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.127701     Document Type: Article

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