We propose a one-parameter extension to $Λ$CDM, expected to strongly affect cosmological tensions. An effective dark radiation component in the early universe redshifts away as hot dark matter, then quintessence, tracking the dominant equation-of-state parameter and leaving a falsifiable torsion field in the current epoch. This picture results from a new Poincaré gauge theory (PGT), one of the most promising among the latest batch of 58 PGTs found to be both power-counting renormalisable and free from ghosts and tachyons. We systematically categorise the cosmologies of 33 of these PGTs, as special cases of the most general parity-preserving, Ostrogradsky-stable PGT with a purely Yang-Mills action. The theory we consider contains two propagating massless gravitons, which may be $J^P=2^+$ (long-range gravitation and gravitational waves). A conspiracy among the coupling constants eliminates the spatial curvature $k\in\{\pm 1,0\}$ from the field equations. We show that this `$k$-screening' is not restricted to conformal gravity theories. The flat Friedmann equations are then emergent, with potentially tension-resolving freedom at the early scale-invariant epoch that reliably gives way to an attractor-like state of modern $Λ$CDM evolution. We compare with related theories and promising special cases, such as $k$-screened theories with negative-definite effective $k$, and more traditional theories with effective $Λ$ and a $J^P=0^-$ massive graviton (dark matter candidate). As a bonus, we analyse similarly constrained actions in the new extended Weyl gauge theory (eWGT). We show that in cosmology, PGT and eWGT span exactly the same classical phenomenology up to a linear map between their coupling constants, hinting at a deeper relationship between the two.
Addressing $H_0$ and $S_8$ tensions within $f(Q)$ cosmology
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU(巴斯克大学);National Technical University of Athens(雅典国立技术大学);National Observatory of Athens(雅典国家天文台);IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science(伊克尔巴斯克,巴斯克科学基金会);CAS Key Laboratory for Researches in Galaxies and Cosmology, Department of Astronomy, University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学院星系与宇宙学重点实验室,中国科学技术大学天文系);Universidad Católica del Norte(北天主教大学)
Addressing the $H_0$ tension through matter with pressure and no early dark energy
Università di Camerino(卡梅里诺大学);INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera(布拉拉天文台(意大利国家天体物理研究所));Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia(意大利国家核物理研究院佩鲁贾分部);SUNY Polytechnic Institute(纽约州立大学理工学院);Al-Farabi Kazakh National University(阿尔法拉比哈萨克国立大学);ICRANet(国际相对论天体物理中心网络)
Revisiting the phenomenologically emergent dark energy model: is non-zero equation of state of dark matter favored by DESI DR2?
School of Physics, Ningxia University(宁夏大学物理学院);MOE Key Laboratory of Data Analytics and Optimization for Smart Industry, Northeastern University(教育部智能工业数据分析与优化重点实验室,东北大学);National Frontiers Science Center for Industrial Intelligence and Systems Optimization, Northeastern University(国家工业智能与系统优化前沿科学中心,东北大学)
Boltzmann Dynamics in K-essence Cosmology: Photon Propagation in an Emergent Spacetime
University of Calcutta(加尔各答大学);Sister Nivedita University(西塔·尼维迪塔大学);Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics(跨大学天文与天体物理中心);Prabhat Kumar College(普拉巴特·库马尔学院);Institute of Astronomy, Space and Earth Science(天文、空间与地球科学研究院)
No preference for generalized emergent dark energy from current cosmological data
Lovely Professional University(洛维专业大学);Babeș-Bolyai University(巴贝什-波约依大学);Khazar University(阿塞拜疆卡扎尔大学);Università di Napoli “Federico II”(那不勒斯费德里科二世大学);Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)(意大利国家核物理研究所);Scuola Superiore Meridionale(南方高等学院);Madhabdev University(马德哈伯德夫大学);Zhejiang Normal University(浙江师范大学);Walailak University(瓦拉莱克大学)
BAO miscalibration cannot rescue late-time solutions to the Hubble tension
University of Trento(特伦托大学);Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications (TIFPA)-INFN(特伦托基础物理与应用研究所(TIFPA)-意大利国家核物理研究所);Istanbul Technical University(伊斯坦布尔技术大学);University of Sheffield(谢菲尔德大学);Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo(圣埃斯皮里图联邦大学);INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste(意大利国家天体物理研究所的里雅斯特天文台);IFPU – Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe(宇宙基础物理研究所);University of Ioannina(约阿尼纳大学)
Comment on Cosmological constraints on unimodular gravity models with diffusion (arXiv:2211.07424): thermodynamic inadmissibility of the H0 tension resolution mechanism
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics(Perimeter理论物理研究所);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Cornell University(康奈尔大学);Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)(马克斯·普朗克引力物理研究所(爱因斯坦研究所));California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院)