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Misalignment production of isotropized vector dark matter?

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-07-15 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present dark matter production by the misalignment mechanism of a multi-vector condensate through kinetic coupling during inflation. We impose isotropized background vector fields to release the model from the stringent constraint of anisotropy. However, it turns out that the constraints imposed by non-Gaussianity and isocurvature fluctuations are incompatible with each other, regardless of whether the fluctuations are in the weak-mixing or strong-mixing regime.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.14267,
  title  = {Misalignment production of isotropized vector dark matter?},
  author = {Chong-Bin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.14267},
  year   = {2026}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures