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The interrelation between the generation of large-scale electric fields and that of large-scale magnetic fields during inflation

Astrophysics 2009-06-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The interrelation between the generation of large-scale electric fields and that of large-scale magnetic fields due to the breaking of the conformal invariance of the electromagnetic field in inflationary cosmology is studied. It is shown that if large-scale magnetic fields with a sufficiently large amplitude are generated during inflation, the generation of large-scale electric fields is suppressed, and vice versa. Furthermore, a physical interpretation of the result and its cosmological significance are considered.

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@article{arxiv.0710.1906,
  title  = {The interrelation between the generation of large-scale electric fields and that of large-scale magnetic fields during inflation},
  author = {Kazuharu Bamba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.1906},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

12 pages, no figure, title changed, typos corrected