Optical black holes and solitons

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.

PhD dissertation (mathematics) defended December 9, 2010

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• Consequences of Dirac Theory of the Positron
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