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Inhomogeneous Cosmologies with Bumpy Structure from Superfluid Pionic Vortices and the propagation of electromagnetic field

Fabrizio Canfora·Alex Giacomini·Nikolaos Dimakis·Andronikos Paliathanasis
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In this work we introduce exact cosmological solutions in General Relativity in (3+1) dimensions which take into account both the usual fluid component as well as a superfluid component describing superfluid Pionic vortices. Such superfluid vortices are source of inhomogeneities which can be treated exactly, no perturbation theory is required. These analytic solutions are relevant to obtain a non-perturbative description of inhomogeneities in cosmology. We discuss the peculiar effects of these hadronic inhomogeneities on the propagation of electromagnetic fields on such cosmological backgrounds analyzing possible observable effects. Finally, the properties that the effective superfluid satisfy for such solutions to exist are discussed, together with possible extensions of this family of solutions.

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Fabrizio Canfora, Alex Giacomini, Nikolaos Dimakis, Andronikos Paliathanasis. 2026-08-25. Inhomogeneous Cosmologies with Bumpy Structure from Superfluid Pionic Vortices and the propagation of electromagnetic field. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24666

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