1999/07/26 by José P. S. Lemos, Richard Kerner
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
published as Grav.Cosmol. 6 (2000) 49-58 · 19 pages, Latex
arxiv created 1999/07/26 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We investigate the properties of non-linear electromagnetism based on the Born-Infeld Lagrangian in multi-dimensional theories of Kaluza-Klein type. We consider flat space-time solutions only, which means that the space-time metric is constant, and the only supplementary variable is the dilaton field, a scalar. We show that in the case of Kaluza-Klein theory, the Born-Infeld Lagrangian describes an interesting interaction between the electromagnetic and scalar fields, whose propagation properties are modified in a non-trivial manner.