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Primordial black hole driven cosmic acceleration

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-11-25 v1

Abstract

We propose a natural mechanism for cosmic acceleration driven by primordial black holes (PBHs) with repulsive behavior, within a ''Swiss Cheese'' cosmological framework. Considering regular black hole spacetimes such as Hayward, Bardeen, and Dymnikova-as well as the singular Schwarzschild-de Sitter case-we consistently find a robust PBH-driven cosmic acceleration phase. This phase ends either at an energy scale set by the PBH parameters or through black hole evaporation. Notably, one finds that ultra-light PBHs with m<5×108gm < 5 \times 10^8 \, {\rm g} can trigger exponential inflation with graceful exit and reheating. Additionally, PBHs with m1012gm \sim 10^{12} \, {\rm g} and abundances 0.107<ΩPBHeq<0.50.107 < \Omega_{\rm PBH}^{\rm eq} < 0.5 near matter-radiation equality can act as an early dark energy component, offering a potential resolution to the Hubble tension.

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@article{arxiv.2511.18080,
  title  = {Primordial black hole driven cosmic acceleration},
  author = {Konstantinos Dialektopoulos and Theodoros Papanikolaou and Vasilios Zarikas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.18080},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Received Honorable Mention from the Gravity Research Foundation in the 2025 Essay Competition

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