Email this article The cosmological origins of nonlinear electrodynamics
- Authors: Novello M.1, Ducap C.E.1
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Affiliations:
- Centro de Estudos Avançados de Cosmologia (CEAC/CBPF)
- Issue: Vol 23, No 2 (2017)
- Pages: 128-130
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0202-2893/article/view/176074
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0202289317020062
- ID: 176074
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Abstract
We present a mechanism that allows any nonlinear theory of electrodynamics to be described as a consequence of a coupling of the electromagnetic field to gravity in the presence of a vacuum represented by the cosmological constant. We emphasize gravity’s exclusive role of catalysis.
About the authors
M. Novello
Centro de Estudos Avançados de Cosmologia (CEAC/CBPF)
Author for correspondence.
Email: novello@cbpf.br
Brazil, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud, 150, CEP, Rio de Janeiro, 22290-180
C. E. L. Ducap
Centro de Estudos Avançados de Cosmologia (CEAC/CBPF)
Email: novello@cbpf.br
Brazil, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud, 150, CEP, Rio de Janeiro, 22290-180
