Gravitational Analogues of Non-linear Born Electrodynamics
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9709196,
title = {Gravitational Analogues of Non-linear Born Electrodynamics},
author = {James A. Feigenbaum and Peter G. O. Freund and Mircea Pigli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9709196},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
20 pages, 2 figures, included a detailed discussion of "non-trace" field equations