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Generation of large-scale magnetic fields from inflation in teleparallelism

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2012-11-02 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We explore the generation of large-scale magnetic fields from inflation in teleparallelism, in which the gravitational theory is described by the torsion scalar instead of the scalar curvature in general relativity. In particular, we examine the case that the conformal invariance of the electromagnetic field during inflation is broken by a non-minimal gravitational coupling between the torsion scalar and the electromagnetic field. It is shown that for a power-law type coupling, the magnetic field on 1 Mpc scale with its strength of 109\sim 10^{-9} G at the present time can be generated.

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@article{arxiv.1208.0665,
  title  = {Generation of large-scale magnetic fields from inflation in teleparallelism},
  author = {Kazuharu Bamba and Chao-Qiang Geng and Ling-Wei Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.0665},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

18 pages, no figure, version accepted for publication in JCAP