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arxiv: gr-qc/9511044 · v1 · submitted 1995-11-15 · 🌀 gr-qc

Quadrupole anisotropy from photon quantum effects

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We consider quantum effects of an electromagnetic field in a radiation-dominated almost FRW spacetime. The dominant non-local quantum correction to the photon distribution is a quadrupole moment, corresponding to an effective anisotropic pressure in the energy-momentum tensor.

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