Partial Relief of the Hubble Tension and a Natural Self-Interacting Dark Matter Candidate From Staged Symmetry Breaking

arXiv:2602.01543 · astro-ph.CO, hep-th · Submitted 2026-02-02 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.CO, hep-th

Submitted: 2026-02-02

Updated: 2026-09-25

Comments: The article has been revised; in particular, we now couple the decay product to dark energy

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Terminology

• Hubble Tension — 26× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Core — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Clustering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Baryonic Feedback — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument — 1× in this paper
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Momentum transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quintessence — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Weak Lensing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Cosmological Implications of Modified Entropic Gravity
• Extended Dark Energy analysis using DESI DR2 BAO measurements
• Evidence for non-cold dark matter from DESI DR2 measurements
• Evidence for Dynamical Dark Matter
• Examining a new form of non-standard dark matter using DESI DR2 data
• DESI-Like Hubble Expansion From Staged Symmetry Breaking: Constraints on Renormalizable Models
• Effective dark matter component presents a robust signature of negative pressure by the DESI observations

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