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Gravitational analogues of nonlinear Born electrodynamics

James FeigenbaumEnrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637P. FreundEnrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637Mircea PigliEnrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
1998en
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Gravitational analogues of the nonlinear electrodynamics of Born and of Born and Infeld are introduced and applied to the black hole problem. This work is mainly devoted to the 2-dimensional case in which the relevant Lagrangians are nonpolynomial in the scalar curvature.

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