vix.ing · top · new · best · stats · spec

Gravitational analogues of nonlinear Born electrodynamics

1997/09/30 by James Feigenbaum, James A. Feigenbaum, Peter G. O. Freund +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.57.4738

published as Phys.Rev. D57 (1998) 4738-4744 · 20 pages, 2 figures, included a detailed discussion of "non-trace" field equations

arxiv created 1997/12/12 · openalex publication_date 1998/04/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

Gravitational analogues of the nonlinear electrodynamics of Born and of Born and Infeld are introduced and applied to the black hole problem. This work is mainly devoted to the 2-dimensional case in which the relevant Lagrangians are nonpolynomial in the scalar curvature.

Citations