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Supersymmetric traversable wormholes

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Andres Anabalon (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)
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online
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We study traversable wormhole
solutions in pure gauged $N\!=\!2$ supergravity with and without
electromagnetic fields, which are locally isometric under
$\mathrm{SO}(2,1)\!\times\!\mathrm{SO}(1,1)$.

The gravitational spin Hall effect of light

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Marius Oancea, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam, Germany
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online
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The propagation of electromagnetic waves in vacuum is often described within the geometrical optics approximation, which predicts that wave rays follow null geodesics. However, this model is valid only in the limit of infinitely high frequencies.