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Cosmology after Phantom Crossing by Horndeski Gravity

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-12-09 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

One possible way to explain the observed effective dark energy equation of state crossing w=1w=-1 (the phantom divide) is through modified gravity. A key point is to not view the expansion history in isolation but to take into account the other gravitational impacts on growth of large scale structure, lensing, etc. Within shift symmetric Horndeski gravity this implies three main paths for the late time cosmic expansion. All require unusual kinetic structure and we analyze their various implications for how ww should behave after phantom crossing.

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@article{arxiv.2512.03139,
  title  = {Cosmology after Phantom Crossing by Horndeski Gravity},
  author = {Eric V. Linder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.03139},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

5 pages; v2 typo corrected

R2 v1 2026-07-01T08:06:23.725Z