Quadrupole anisotropy from photon quantum effects
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چکیده
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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