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Quintessence and the Rest of the World

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A nearly-massless, slowly-rolling scalar field $\phi$ may provide most of the energy density of the current universe. One potential difficulty with this idea is that couplings to ordinary matter, even if suppressed by the Planck scale, should lead to observable long-range forces and time dependence of the constants of nature. I explore the possibility that an approximate global symmetry serves to suppress such couplings even further. Such a symmetry would allow a coupling of $\phi$ to the pseudoscalar $F_{\mu\nu}\widetilde F^{\mu\nu}$ of electromagnetism, which would rotate the polarization state of radiation from distant sources. This effect is fairly well constrained, but it is conceivable that future improvements could lead to a detection of a cosmological scalar field.

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CMB Birefringence from Vacuum Interfaces

hep-th · 2026-05-11 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

CMB polarization rotation emerges as a Pancharatnam phase localized at dark sector vacuum interfaces, independent of redshift, frequency, and the presence of light axions.

Parity Violation in Galaxy Shapes: Primordial Non-Gaussianity

astro-ph.CO · 2025-09-10 · conditional · novelty 6.0

The parity-odd intrinsic alignment power spectrum probes the collapsed limit of the parity-odd primordial trispectrum and can tighten constraints on parity-violating PNG when bias parameters are calibrated from N-body simulations.

An Interplay Between Fractional Calculus and Holographic Dark Energy

gr-qc · 2026-06-21 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Introduces Fractional Holographic Dark Energy (FHDE) via fractionally corrected entropy from a modified Wheeler-DeWitt equation and studies its late-time cosmology, field reconstructions, and extensions to modified gravity theories.

The Hubble Tension and Early Dark Energy

astro-ph.CO · 2022-11-08 · unverdicted · novelty 2.0

The Hubble tension between local and early-universe expansion-rate measurements may be resolved by early dark energy that speeds up expansion before recombination while satisfying existing constraints.

A short course in general relativity

gr-qc · 2026-04-19 · unverdicted · novelty 0.0

Lecture notes that derive the nonlinear Einstein field equations from the gravitational action and apply them to black holes, cosmology, and gravitational waves at the advanced undergraduate level.

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