Seed Magnetic Fields from the Breaking of Lorentz Invariance
Abstract
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Spontaneous breaking of Lorentz invariance may take place in string theories, possibly endowing the photon with a mass. This leads to the breaking of the conformal symmetry of the electromagnetic action allowing for the generation within inflationary scenarios of magnetic fields over $Mpc$ scales. We show that the generated fields are consistent with amplification by the galactic dynamo processes and can be as large as to explain the observed galactic magnetic fields through the collapse of protogalactic clouds.
6 pages, plain Latex (requires mprocl.sty file available at http://www.indiana.edu/~cpt98/proceedings.html). Talk delivered by O.B. at the Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, USA, November 1998
6 pages, plain Latex (requires mprocl.sty file available at http://www.indiana.edu/~cpt98/proceedings.html). Talk delivered by O.B. at the Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, USA, November 1998