Lorentz symmetry violation due to interactions of photons with the graviton background

Abstract

The average time delay of photons due to multiple interactions with gravitons of the background is computed in a frame of the model of low-energy quantum gravity by the author. The two variants of evaluation of the lifetime of a virtual photon are considered: 1$)$ on a basis of the uncertainties relation (it is a common place in physics of particles) and 2$)$ using a conjecture about constancy of the proper lifetime of a virtual photon. It is shown that in the first case Lorentz violation is negligible: the ratio of the average time delay of photons to their propagation time is equal approximately to $10^{-28}$; in the second one (with a new free parameter of the model), the time-lag is proportional to the difference $\sqrt{E_{01}}-\sqrt{E_{02}}$, where $E_{01},E_{02}$ are initial energies of photons, and more energetic photons should arrive later, also as in the first case. The effect of graviton pairing is taken into account, too.

7 pages, no figure, Latex

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