Equivalence principle and electromagnetic field: No birefringence, no dilaton, and no axion

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1239-1248

  Hehl, Friedrich W ^a,b   Obukhov, Yuri N ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Axion field; Classical electrodynamics; Dilaton field; Equivalence principle; General relativity; Skewon field

Indexed keywords

EID: 44249126027     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-007-0601-5     Document Type: Article

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