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Magnetic fields in the early Universe

✍ Scribed by K. Subramanian

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
196 KB
Volume
331
Category
Article
ISSN
0004-6337

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Abstract

We give a pedagogical introduction to two aspects of magnetic fields in the early Universe. We first focus on how to formulate electrodynamics in curved space time, defining appropriate magnetic and electric fields and writing Maxwell equations in terms of these fields. We then specialize to the case of magnetohydrodynamics in the expanding Universe. We emphasize the usefulness of tetrads in this context. We then review the generation of magnetic fields during the inflationary era, deriving in detail the predicted magnetic and electric spectra for some models. We discuss potential problems arising from back reaction effects and from the large variation of the coupling constants required for such field generation (Β© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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