Cosmic optical activity from an inhomogeneous Kalb-Ramond field

The effects of introducing a harmonic spatial inhomogeneity into the Kalb-Ramond field, interacting with the Maxwell field according to a 'string-inspired' proposal made in an earlier study are investigated. We examine, in particular, the effects on the polarization of synchrotron radiation from cosmologically distant (i.e. of redshift >2) galaxies, as well as the relation between the electric and magnetic components of the radiation field. The rotation of the polarization plane of linearly-polarized radiation is seen to acquire an additional contribution proportional to the square of the frequency of the dual Kalb-Ramond axion wave, assuming that it is far smaller compared to the frequency of the radiation field.