Optical black holes and solitons
Mathematical Physics
2010-12-22 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
math.MP
Optics
Abstract
We exhibit a static, cylindrically symmetric, exact solution to the Euler-Heisenberg field equations (EHFE) and prove that its effective geometry contains (optical) black holes. It is conjectured that there are also soliton solutions to the EHFE which contain black hole geometries.
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@article{arxiv.1012.4536,
title = {Optical black holes and solitons},
author = {Shawn Westmoreland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.4536},
year = {2010}
}
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PhD dissertation (mathematics) defended December 9, 2010