Monday, December 19, 2011

1112.3901 (Camille Bonvin et al.)

Magnetic fields from inflation: the fatal transition to the radiation era    [PDF]

Camille Bonvin, Chiara Caprini, Ruth Durrer
We show that magnetic fields generated during inflation, if they are sufficient to provide the seeds for the observed large scale fields in galaxies, clusters and voids, generically lead to large metric fluctuations during the subsequent radiation era. The ratio of the Weyl tensor generated from magnetic fields during inflation to the Ricci tensor grows in the radiation dominated era to become larger than unity. This is in flagrant contradiction with the homogeneity and isotropy of the observed Universe.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3901

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