A Holographic Bound on Cosmic Magnetic Fields
arXiv:1409.3663 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.12.028
Abstract
Magnetic fields large enough to be observable are ubiquitous in astrophysics, even at extremely large length scales. This has led to the suggestion that such fields are seeded at very early (inflationary) times, and subsequently amplified by various processes involving, for example, dynamo effects. Many such mechanisms give rise to extremely large magnetic fields at the end of inflationary reheating, and therefore also during the quark-gluon plasma epoch of the early universe. Such plasmas have a well-known holographic description in terms of a thermal asymptotically AdS black hole. We show that holography imposes an upper bound on the intensity of magnetic fields ( at the hadronization temperature) in these circumstances; this is above, but not far above, the values expected in some models of cosmic magnetogenesis.
arXiv comment16 pages, 2 figures, explicit numerical value given for the bound, improved discussion of implications for superadiabatic amplification, version to appear in Nucl Phys B
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