Kinetics of interacting gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations in cosmological plasma

Abstract

The system of Einstein-Maxwell equations and a kinetic equation with a model collision integral for the cosmological plasma is used to study the behavior of gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations in the radiation-dominated stage of expansion of the universe. It is shown that gravitational perturbations are capable of generating electromagnetic fields in the cosmological plasma. © 1992 Plenum Publishing Corporation.