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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Assessing Cosmological Evidence for Nonminimal Coupling

   Wolf, García-García, Anton and Ferreira · Physical Review Letters · 2025

   The paper assesses cosmological evidence for quintessence and finds the data favour a concave potential and a scalar field non-minimally coupled to gravity, which would imply fifth forces we do not observe.

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   1. UncheckedIf quintessence drives cosmic acceleration, the data favour a concave potential energy, meaning a negative curvature, m² = d²V/dφ² < 0.“We find that, if the accelerated expansion is driven by quintessence, the data favour a potential energy $V(\varphi)$ that is concave, i.e., $m^2=d^2V/d\varphi^2<0$.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   On the homogeneity of SnIa absolute magnitude in the Pantheon+ sample

   Perivolaropoulos and Skara · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2023

   The authors refit the Pantheon+ supernova sample with two absolute magnitudes split at a transition distance, finding a better fit and a possible change in supernova luminosity near 20 Mpc.

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   1. UncheckedAllowing two supernova absolute magnitudes either side of a transition distance gives a tension above 3σ, with the best-fit transition near 20 Mpc.“The tension between the $M_<$ and $M_>$ best fit values is at a level more than $3σ$ with a best fit $d_{crit}$ very close to $20Mpc$.”
   2. UncheckedIn a simulation, the real data's strongest supernova luminosity transition exceeded that of 94% of simulated samples with one uniform absolute magnitude.“This simulation shows that the maximum significance of the SnIa luminosity transition ($Σ\equiv \frac{|M_>-M_<|}{\sqrt{σ_{M_>}^2+σ_{M_<}^2}}$) in the real data, is larger than the corresponding maximum significance of $94\%$ of the corresponding homogeneous simulated samples.”