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Constraints on Generalized Gravity-Thermodynamic Cosmology from DESI DR2

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-03-06 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We explore the cosmological implications of generalized entropic models within the framework of Gravity-Thermodynamics (GT) approaches. These models, characterized by three or four additional free parameters, are designed to capture deviations from the standard Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and can reproduce well-known entropic formulations, including Tsallis, R\'enyi, Sharma-Mittal, Barrow, Kaniadakis, and Loop Quantum Gravity entropies in various analytical limits. We implement the corresponding cosmological models using a fully numerical GT approach to constrain the model parameters and to study the evolution of the dark energy equation of state as a function of the scale factor. Our Bayesian analysis, which incorporates the Pantheon+ and DESy5 supernovae data alongside the recently released DESI-DR2/DR1 Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements, shows that the data favor the standard Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, leading to a Λ\LambdaCDM-like late-time behavior. In this context, the three-parameter (S3\mathcal{S}_3) entropic model appears to be sufficient to capture the observed dark energy phenomenology. Furthermore, a direct comparison of the Bayesian evidence indicates that the three-parameter model is preferred over the four-parameter (S4\mathcal{S}_4) variant by a factor of ΔlogB6\Delta\log\mathcal{B} \sim -6, while the GT approach as a whole is significantly disfavored relative to the Λ\LambdaCDM model with at least ΔlogB8\Delta\log\mathcal{B} \sim -8 (S3\mathcal{S}_3) to ΔlogB13\Delta\log\mathcal{B} \sim -13 (S4\mathcal{S}_4), when using the DESy5 and DESI-DR2 datasets.

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@article{arxiv.2504.11308,
  title  = {Constraints on Generalized Gravity-Thermodynamic Cosmology from DESI DR2},
  author = {Udit K. Tyagi and Sandeep Haridasu and Soumen Basak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.11308},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

13 pages, 4 figures, comments are welcome

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