Cross-correlations between scalar perturbations and magnetic fields in bouncing universes

Abstract

Bouncing scenarios offer an alternative to the inflationary paradigm for the generation of perturbations in the early universe. Recently, there has been a surge in interest in examining the issue of primordial magnetogenesis in the context of bouncing universes. As in the case of inflation, the conformal invariance of the electromagnetic action needs to be broken in bouncing scenarios in order to generate primordial magnetic fields which correspond to observed strengths today. The non-minimal coupling, which typically depends on a scalar field that possibly drives the homogeneous background, leads to a cross-correlation at the level of the three-point function between the perturbation in the scalar field and the magnetic fields. This has been studied in some detail in the context of inflation and, specifically, it has been established that the three-point function satisfies the so-called consistency relation in the squeezed limit. In this work, we study the cross-correlation between the magnetic fields and the perturbation in an auxiliary scalar field in a certain class of bouncing scenarios. We consider couplings that lead to scale invariant spectra of the magnetic field and evaluate the corresponding cross-correlation between the magnetic field and the perturbation in the scalar field. We find that, when compared to de Sitter inflation, the dimensionless non-Gaussianity parameter that characterizes the amplitude of the cross-correlations proves to be considerably larger in bouncing scenarios. We also show that the aforementioned consistency condition governing the cross-correlation is violated in the bouncing models. We discuss the implications of our results.

arXiv commentv1: 29 pages, 3 figures; v2: 29 pages, 3 figures, references added; v3: 30 pages, 3 figures, discussions added, version published in JCAP

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