Astrophysical Tests of Lorentz Symmetry In
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In this talk presented at the Fourth International Workshop on New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics, I discuss recent constraints on Lorentz violation in electrodynamics. The observed absence of birefringence of light that has propagated over cosmological distances bounds some coefficients for Lorentz violation to 2× 10.
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