Krishnan, C and Mohayaee, R and Colgáin, Eà and Sheikh-Jabbari, MM and Yin, L (2021) Does Hubble tension signal a breakdown in FLRW cosmology? In: Classical and Quantum Gravity, 38 (18).
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Abstract
The tension between early and late Universe probes of the Hubble constant has motivated various new FLRW cosmologies. Here, we reanalyse the Hubble tension with a recent age of the Universe constraint. This allows us to restrict attention to matter and a dark energy sector that we treat without assuming a specific model. Assuming analyticity of the Hubble parameter H(z), and a generic low redshift modification to flat �CDM, we find that low redshift data (z � 2.5) and well-motivated priors only permit a dark energy sector close to the cosmological constant �. This restriction rules out late Universe modifications within FLRW. We show that early Universe physics that alters the sound horizon can yield an upper limit of H0 � 71 ± 1 km s-1 Mpc-1. Since various local determinations may be converging to H0 � 73 km s-1 Mpc-1, a breakdown of the FLRW framework is a plausible resolution. We outline how future data, in particular strongly lensed quasar data, could also provide further confirmations of such a resolution. © 2021 IOP Publishing Ltd.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Classical and Quantum Gravity |
| Publisher: | IOP Publishing Ltd |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to Authors |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for High Energy Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2021 07:09 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2021 07:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/70144 |
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