1992/04/01 by A. Aurilia, Euro Spallucci, E. Spallucci · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(92)90478-m
published as Phys.Lett. B282 (1992) 50-55 · 15 pages
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A metal ring removed from a soap-water solution encloses a film of soap which can be mathematically described as a minimal surface having the ring as its only boundary. This is known to everybody. In this letter we suggest a relativistic extension of the above fluidodynamic system where the soap film is replaced by a Kalb-Ramond gauge potential \b(x) and the ring by a closed string. The interaction between the \b-field and the string current excites a new configuration of the system consisting of a relativistic membrane bounded by the string. We call such a classical solution of the equation of motion an axionic membrane. As a dynamical system, the axionic membrane admits a Hamilton-Jacobi formulation which is an extension of the H-J theory of electromagnetic strings.