Testing the origin of cosmological magnetic fields through the large-scale structure consistency relations

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Published 19 May 2014 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation P. Berger et al JCAP05(2014)025 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/05/025

1475-7516/2014/05/025

Abstract

We study the symmetries of the post-recombination cosmological magnetohydrodynamical equations which describe the evolution of dark matter, baryons and magnetic fields in a self-consistent way. This is done both at the level of fluid equations and of Vlasov-Poisson-Maxwell equations in phase space. We discuss some consistency relations for the soft limit of the (n+1)-correlator functions involving magnetic fields and matter overdensities. In particular, we stress that any violation of such consistency relations at equal-time would point towards an inflationary origin of the magnetic field.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2014/05/025