Westmoreland, Shawn Michael2010-12-132010-12-132010-12-13http://hdl.handle.net/2097/6910We 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.en-US© the author. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Optical black holesSolitonsEffective geometriesNonlinear PDEsNonlinear electrodynamicsEuler-Heisenberg LagrangianDissertationMathematics (0405)