v 1 2 2 O ct 1 99 9 MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS IN THE INFLATIONARY
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چکیده
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves are analysed in the early Universe, in the inflationary era, assuming the Universe to be filled with a nonviscous fluid of the Zel’dovich type (p = ρ) in a metric of the de Sitter form. A spatially uniform, time dependent, magnetic field B0 is assumed to be present. The Einstein equations are first solved to give the time dependence of the scale factor, assuming that the matter density, but not the magnetic field, contribute as source terms. The various modes are thereafter analysed; they turn out to be essentially of the same kind as those encountered in conventional nongravitational MHD, although the longitudinal magnetosonic wave is not interpretable as a physical energy-transporting wave as the group velocity becomes superluminal. We determine the phase speed of the various modes; they turn out to be scale factor independent. The Alfvén velocity of the transverse magnetohydrodynamic wave becomes extremely small in the inflationary era, showing that the wave is in practice ’frozen in’. E-mail address: [email protected] E-mail address: [email protected]
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