Published April 12, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

'Square root' of the Maxwell Lagrangian versus confinement in general relativity

  • 1. Department of Physics, Eastern Mediterranean University, G. Magusa, North Cyprus, Mersin 10 (Turkey)

Description

We employ the 'square root' of the Maxwell Lagrangian (i.e. √(FμνFμν)), coupled with gravity to search for the possible linear potentials which are believed to play role in confinement. It is found that in the presence of magnetic charge no confining potential exists in such a model. Confining field solutions are found for radial geodesics in pure electrically charged Nariai-Bertotti-Robinson (NBR)-type spacetime with constant scalar curvature. Recently, Guendelman, Kaganovich, Nissimov and Pacheva (2011) have shown that superposed square root with standard Maxwell Lagrangian yields confining potentials in spherically symmetric spacetimes with new generalized Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter/anti-de Sitter black hole solutions. In NBR spacetimes we show that confining potentials exist even when the standard Maxwell Lagrangian is relaxed.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.030

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.030;
arXiv
arXiv:1201.2321v2;
PII
S0370-2693(12)00304-8;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
710
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 489-492
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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