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Lorentzian Comments on Stokes Parameters

Juan Antonio MoralesE. Navarro

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Physics::Fluid DynamicsPhysicsGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmologysymbols.namesakeClassical mechanicsGeodesics in general relativityParallel transportNull vectorsymbolsDegree of polarizationStokes parametersPolarization (waves)Cosmology

description

The popular Stokes statements about polarized light are interpreted in a Minkowskian language using a Lorentzian representation for the Stokes parameters and the degree of polarization. The evolution equations for Stokes parameters on a curved space-time are obtained using the parallel transport of the polarization vector along a null geodesic. The interest of these equations in Astrophysics and Relativistic Cosmology is outlined.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2003-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36973-2_18