Monday, December 19, 2011

1112.3897 (Camille Bonvin et al.)

Inflationary magnetic fields spoil the homogeneity and isotropy of the Universe    [PDF]

Camille Bonvin, Chiara Caprini, Ruth Durrer
We show that magnetic fields generated during inflation gives rise to a constant mode in the Bardeen potential after inflation, in the radiation era, which is proportional to the magnetic scalar anisotropic stress. The ratio of this constant mode of the Bardeen potential to the background curvature grows in the radiation era, with the fatal consequence of spoiling the homogeneity and isotropy of the Friedmann Lemaitre (FL) Universe. This happens even if back-reaction on the background metric is negligible during inflation, and severely constrains magnetogenesis mechanisms operating during inflation.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3897

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