Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-08-25
Phys.Rev.D72:123509,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Revised version (conductivity effects extended), references added, to appear in PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.123509
Inflation is known to produce both gravitational waves and seed magnetic fields on scales well beyond the size of the horizon. The general relativistic interaction between these two sources at the end of inflation showed a significant amplification of the initial magnetic seed, which brought the latter within the currently accepted dynamo limits. In the present article we revisit this gravito-magnetic interaction and argue that the observed strong growth of the field is the result of resonance. More specifically, we show that the maximum magnetic boost always occurs when the wavelength of the inducing gravitational radiation and the scale of the original seed field coincide. We also look closer at the physics of the proposed Maxwell-Weyl coupling, consider the implications of finite electrical conductivity for the efficiency of the amplification mechanism and clarify further the mathematics of the analysis.
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