Magnetic fields in the early universe in the string approach to MHD

Details Magnetic fields in the early universe in the string approach to MHD Magnetic fields in the early universe in the string approach to MHD

1999-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904358v1

Phys.Rev. D60 (1999) 063001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.60.063001

There is a reformulation of magnetohydrodynamics in which the fundamental dynamical quantities are the positions and velocities of the lines of magnetic flux in the plasma, which turn out to obey equations of motion very much like ideal strings. We use this approach to study the evolution of a primordial magnetic field generated during the radiation-dominated era in the early Universe. Causality dictates that the field lines form a tangled random network, and the string-like equations of motion, plus the assumption of perfect reconnection, inevitably lead to a self-similar solution for the magnetic field power spectrum. We present the predicted form of the power spectrum, and discuss insights gained from the string approximation, in particular the implications for the existence or not of an inverse cascade.

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