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It is well known that the low energy electron excitations of the curved graphene sheet Σ are solutions of the massless Dirac equation on a 2+1 dimensional ultra-static metric on R×Σ. An externally applied electric field on the graphene sheet induces a gauge potential which could be mimicked by considering a stationary optical metric of the Zermelo form, which is conformal to the BTZ black hole when...