Cosmological magnetic helicity and birefrigence from primordial torsion in Lorentz violation theories

TL;DR

This paper explores how primordial torsion in Lorentz-violating theories can generate cosmological magnetic helicity and birefringence, deriving a dynamo equation with curvature-dependent resistivity and analyzing magnetic field spectra.

Contribution

It introduces a novel dynamo equation derived from flat torsion photon coupling in Riemann-Cartan spacetime, linking torsion to magnetic helicity and birefringence effects.

Findings

Resistivity depends on Ricci scalar curvature in the dynamo equation.

Magnetic power spectrum is computed within the torsion framework.

Photon birefringence arises naturally from torsion-photon coupling.

Abstract

Cosmological magnetic helicity has been thought to be a fundamental agent for magnetic field amplification in the universe. More recently Semikoz and Sokoloff [Phys Rev Lett 92 (2004): 131.301.] showed that the weakness of the seed fields did not necessarily imply the weakness of magnetic cosmological helicity. In this paper we present a derivation of dynamo equation based upon the flat torsion photon non-minimal coupling through Riemann-Cartan spacetime. From this derivation one computes the necessary conditions for a flat torsion field to generate a galactic dynamo seed, from the cosmological magnetic helicity. A peculiar feature of this dynamo equation is that the resistivity depends upon the Ricci scalar curvature. This feature is also present in turbulent dynamo models. Here the electrical effective conductivity is obtained by making use of flat torsion modes of a $R(\Gamma)F^{2}$ Lagrangean where R refers to the Ricci-Cartan spacetime. Power spectrum of the magnetic field is also computed. Lorentz violation appears naturally from birefrigence of photons semi-minimally coupled to torsion. Though Dobado and Maroto [Mod Phys Lett A 12: 3003 (1997)] have previously investigated the role of primordial torsion in the anisotropy of light propagation they made it using the fermionic sector of the QED Lagrangean while we obtained similar results using the photonic sector. They also used the pseudo-trace of torsion while we here work out with the torsion trace itself.