The Born-Infeld electromagnetism in Kaluza-Klein theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
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.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9907187,
title = {The Born-Infeld electromagnetism in Kaluza-Klein theory},
author = {José P. S. Lemos and Richard Kerner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9907187},
year = {2007}
}
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19 pages, Latex