Can cosmological perturbations produce early universe vorticity?

Details Can cosmological perturbations produce early universe vorticity? Can cosmological perturbations produce early universe vorticity?

2010-10-23

arxiv.org/abs/1010.4885v1

Class.Quant.Grav.28:114004,2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

10 pages, invited article to appear in special GR19 issue of CQG

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/28/11/114004

In this special issue article, based on the talk with the same title in session B5 (Theoretical and Mathematical Cosmology) at GR19, we review the case of vorticity generation in cosmology using cosmological perturbation theory. We show that, while at linear order the vorticity evolution equation has no source term in the absence of anisotropic stress, at second order vorticity is sourced by gradients in entropy and energy density perturbations. We then present some estimates for the magnitude and scale dependence of the vorticity power spectrum using simple input power spectra for the energy density and entropy perturbations. Finally, we close with possible directions for future work followed by some hints toward the observational importance of the vorticity so generated, and the possibility of primordial magnetic field generation.

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