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arxiv: quant-ph/0310059 · v3 · submitted 2003-10-09 · 🪐 quant-ph

Dispersion Relations and Relativistic Causality

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In this paper we show that if the refractive index, or rather (n(w) -1) satisfies the dispersion relations then, it is implied by Titchmarsh's theorem that n(w) -> 1 as w -> infinity. Any other limiting value for n(w) would violate relativistic causality, by which we mean not only that cause must precede effect but also that signals cannot travel faster-than-c (the velocity of light) in a vacuum. This paper does not claim to be a mathematically rigorous proof, but the authors hope to have succeeded in supplying a very convincing argument against faster-than-c light signals. Keywords: Dispersion relations, Kramers Kronig relations, Causality, faster-than-c signals.

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