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Model-independent measurements for the cosmic spatial curvature, which is related to the nature of cosmic space-time geometry, plays an important role in cosmology. On the basis of the Distance Sum Rule in the…

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The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) provides a direct way to measure the luminosity distance, which enables us to probe cosmology. In this paper, we continue to expand the application of GW standard sirens in cosmology, and propose…

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An approach to estimate the spatial curvature $\Omega_k$ from data independently of dynamical models is suggested, through kinematic parameterizations of the comoving distance ($D_{C}(z)$) with third degree polynomial, of the Hubble…

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We investigate the null tests of cosmic accelerated expansion by using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) data measured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and reconstruct the dimensionless Hubble parameter $E(z)$ from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Xuchen Lu , Shengqing Gao , Yungui Gong

We present a new model-independent method to determine the spatial curvature and to mitigate the circularity problem affecting the use of quasars as distance indicators. The cosmic-chronometer measurements are used to construct the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Jun-Jie Wei , Fulvio Melia

Persistent tensions in the $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model underline the importance of tests of its basic assumptions. One such potential test arises from the fact that the surface of zero expansion around the collapsing object with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Jan J. Ostrowski , Ismael Delgado Gaspar

A method of general applicability has been developed, whereby the null geodesic equations of the Einstein-Straus-de Sitter metric can be integrated simultaneously in terms of the curvature constant $k$. The purpose is to generalize the…

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The current accelerated expansion of the Universe remains ones of the most intriguing topics in modern cosmology, driving the search for innovative statistical techniques. Recent advancements in machine learning have significantly enhanced…

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We investigate the null tests of spatial flatness and the flat $\Lambda$CDM model using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) data measured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the cosmic chronometers (CCH) $H(z)$ data, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Shengqing Gao , Qing Gao , Yungui Gong , Xuchen Lu

In this paper, we present a cosmological model-independent test for the cosmic opacity at high redshifts ($z\sim5$). We achieve this with the opacity-dependent luminosity distances derived from nonlinear relation between X-ray and UV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Yuting Liu , Shuaibo Geng , Yujie Lian

We consider some background tests of standard cosmology in the context of Horava gravity with different scaling dimensions for space and time, which has been proposed as a renormalizable, higher-derivative, Lorentz-violating quantum gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Nils A. Nilsson , Mu-In Park

Spatial curvature is one of the fundamental cosmological parameters that is routinely constrained from observations. The forward modelling of observations, in particular of large-scale structure, often relies on large cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Julian Adamek , Renan Boschetti

In this work we examine what are the cosmological implications of allowing the geometrical curvature density to behave independently from the energy density contents. Using the full data extracted by Planck mission from CMB, combined with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-02 Ziad Sakr , Alain Blanchard

The case for a flat Cold Dark Matter model with a positive cosmological constant $\Lambda$ has been recently strongly advocated by some theoreticians. In this paper we give the observers point of view to the light of the most recent…

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In the context of the discrepancies between the early and late universe, we emphasize the importance of independent measurements of the cosmic curvature in the late universe. We present an investigation of the model-independent measurement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Jing-Zhao Qi , Ping Meng , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

It is well-known that allowing for spatial curvature affects constraints on cosmological parameters such as the dark energy equation of state parameters. Here we study the effect of curvature on constraints on parameters used to test…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Jason Dossett , Mustapha Ishak

The origin of the Hubble tension remains one of the central open problems in modern cosmology, with competing explanations invoking either early-Universe physics, late-time modifications of cosmic expansion, or unresolved observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 Gerasimos Kouniatalis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

The cosmic curvature, a fundamental parameter for cosmology could hold deep clues to inflation and cosmic origins. We propose an improved model-independent method to constrain the cosmic curvature by combining the constructed Hubble diagram…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Marek Biesiada , Yuting Liu , Yujie Lian

Cosmological models and their parameters are widely debated because of theoretical and observational mismatches of the standard cosmological model, especially the current discrepancy between the value of the Hubble constant, $H_{0}$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Aleksander Łukasz Lenart , Giada Bargiacchi , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Shigehiro Nagataki , Salvatore Capozziello

When using distance measurements to probe spatial curvature, the geometric degeneracy between curvature and dark energy in the distance-redshift relation typically requires either making strong assumptions about the dark energy evolution or…

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