Bulk/boundary modular quintessence and DESI

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2025-09-01

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Anchordoqui, Luis A.
Antoniadis, Ignatios
Cribiori, Niccolò
Hasar, Arda
Lüst, Dieter
Masias, Joaquin
Scalisi, Marco

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The latest DESI DR2 results, when combined with other independent cosmological data on the Cosmic Microwave Background and supernovas, suggest a preference for dynamical dark energy. We propose a novel cosmological scenario, which features two distinct scalar fields. One governs the magnitude of the present-day dark energy density and is related to the size of extra-dimensions. Accounting for the observed smallness of this energy density requires the scalar to reside near the boundary of field space. The second field, responsible for the time evolution of dark energy and associated with the string coupling, must instead lie in the bulk to remain consistent with the non-observation of light string states. We show that a natural candidate for such dark energy dynamics is a quintessence modular-invariant potential, in which the second scalar field rolls down a negatively curved slope, starting from a self-dual critical point. We find that this scenario is in good agreement with the latest findings by DESI.

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Cosmological models, de Sitter space, String and Brane Phenomenology, Supergravity Models

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/116605

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