Accelerating photons with gravitational radiation Original Research Article

The nature of superluminal photon propagation in the gravitational field describing radiation from a time-dependent, isolated source (the Bondi–Sachs metric) is considered in an effective theory which includes interactions which violate the strong equivalence principle. Such interactions are, for example, generated by vacuum polarisation in conventional QED in curved spacetime. The relation of the resulting light-cone modifications to the Peeling Theorem for the Bondi–Sachs spacetime is explained.