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Paper   IPM / P / 11530
School of Physics
  Title:   On the Cosmological Constraints on the Light Speed
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  Status:   Preprint
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  Year:  2010
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
We calculate the birefringent in the vacuum for light at the leading and sub-leading orders for the CPT-even part of the SME. We report that all the LIV coecients absent in the leading order, but the isotropic one, contribute to the sub-leading order birefringent. Infrared, optical, and ultraviolet spectropolarimetry of cosmological sources, therefore, bound these coecients to less than 10−16. This improves the best current bound on the parity-odd coecients by two orders of magnitude. This bound establishes the isotropy of the one-way light speed with the precision of 41[(nm)/(s)] .

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