Born - Infeld - Einstein actions?
We present some obvious physical requirements on gravitational avatars of nonlinear electrodynamics and illustrate them with explicit determinantal Born - Infeld - Einstein models. A related procedure, using compensating Weyl scalars, permits us to formulate conformally invariant versions of these s...
| Published in: | Classical and Quantum Gravity |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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1998
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/15/5/001 |
| Summary: | We present some obvious physical requirements on gravitational avatars of nonlinear electrodynamics and illustrate them with explicit determinantal Born - Infeld - Einstein models. A related procedure, using compensating Weyl scalars, permits us to formulate conformally invariant versions of these systems as well. © 1998 IOP Publishing. Received 6 March 1998. The research of SD was supported by the National Science Foundation, under grant no PHY-9315811. Our work was begun at the VI Conference on the Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems, during a session held at the Presidente Frei Antarctic base; we thank the organizers for this unique opportunity. Submitted - 9803049.pdf |
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