Abstract
There are two mechanisms of a pure vacuum optical nonlinearity with respect to high-power radiation. First, it is a quantum-electrodynamical phenomenon of electron-positron vacuum polarization. Second, it is a classical (Einsteinian) phenomenon of gravitation induced by electromagnetic radiation [1]. Although these phenomena are locally weak, their effect can be accumulated for a long distance of radiation propagation.
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