Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Recent works have shown the important role nonlinear electrodynamics (NLED) can have in two crucial questions of cosmology, concerning particular moments of its evolution for very large and for low-curvature regimes, that is for very condensed phase and at the present period of acceleration. We present here a toy model of a complete cosmological scenario in which the main factor responsible for the geometry is a nonlinear magnetic field which produces a Friedmann–Robertson–Walker homogeneous and isotropic geometry. In this scenario we distinguish four distinct phases: a bouncing period, a radiation era, an acceleration era, and a re-bouncing period. It has already been shown that in NLED a strong magnetic field can overcome the inevitability of a singular region typical of linear Maxwell theory; on the other extreme situation, that is for very weak magnetic field it can accelerate the expansion. The present model goes one step further: after the acceleration phase the universe re-bounces and enters into a collapse era. This behavior is a manifestation of the invariance under the dual map of the scale factor a(t) → 1/a(t), a consequence of the corresponding inverse symmetry of the electromagnetic field (F → 1/F, where F ≡ FμνFμν) of the NLED theory presented here. Such sequence collapse–bouncing–expansion–acceleration–re-bouncing–collapse constitutes a basic unitary element for the structure of the universe that can be repeated indefinitely yielding what we call a cyclic magnetic universe.
Authors: M. NOVELLO, ALINE N. ARAUJO, J. M. SALIM
Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2050141259