Electrodynamics of a Cosmic Dark Fluid

TL;DR

This paper explores how a cosmic Dark Fluid, composed of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, influences electromagnetic wave propagation and field structures, revealing effects like optical activity and anomalous responses in cosmological models.

Contribution

It introduces a covariant electrodynamics framework for Dark Fluid, identifying dark analogs of medium effects and analyzing ten models with exact solutions for cosmological applications.

Findings

Identification of longitudinal magneto-electric clusters

Generation of anomalous electromagnetic responses

Formation of Dark Epochs in the universe

Abstract

Cosmic Dark Fluid is considered as a non-stationary medium, in which electromagnetic waves propagate, and magneto-electric field structures emerge and evolve. A medium - type representation of the Dark Fluid allows us to involve into analysis the concepts and mathematical formalism elaborated in the framework of classical covariant electrodynamics of continua, and to distinguish dark analogs of well-known medium-effects, such as optical activity, pyro-electricity, piezo-magnetism, electro- and magneto-striction and dynamo-optical activity. The Dark Fluid is assumed to be formed by a duet of a Dark Matter (a pseudoscalar axionic constituent) and Dark Energy (a scalar element); respectively, we distinguish electrodynamic effects induced by these two constituents of the Dark Fluid. The review contains discussions of ten models, which describe electrodynamic effects induced by Dark Matter and/or Dark Energy. The models are accompanied by examples of exact solutions to the master equations, correspondingly extended; applications are considered for cosmology and space-times with spherical and pp-wave symmetries. In these applications we focused the attention on three main electromagnetic phenomena induced by the Dark Fluid: first, emergence of Longitudinal Magneto-Electric Clusters; second, generation of anomalous electromagnetic responses; third, formation of Dark Epochs in the Universe history.