Precision cosmology with Padé rational approximations: theoretical predictions versus observational limits

Abstract

We propose a novel approach for parameterizing the luminosity distance, based on the use of rational "Padé" approximations. This new technique extends standard Taylor treatments, overcoming possible convergence issues at high redshifts plaguing standard cosmography. Indeed, we show that Padé expansions enable us to confidently use data over a larger interval with respect to the usual Taylor series. To show this property in detail, we propose several Padé expansions and we compare these approximations with cosmic data, thus obtaining cosmographic bounds from the observable universe for all cases. In particular, we fit Padé luminosity distances with observational data from different uncorrelated surveys. We employ union 2.1 supernova data, baryonic acoustic oscillation, Hubble space telescope measurements and differential age data. In so doing, we also demonstrate that the use of Padé approximants can improve the analyses carried out by introducing cosmographic auxiliary variables, i.e. a standard technique usually employed in cosmography in order to overcome the divergence problem. Moreover, for any drawback related to standard cosmography, we emphasize possible resolutions in the framework of Padé approximants. In particular, we investigate how to reduce systematics, how to overcome the degeneracy between cosmological coefficients, how to treat divergences and so forth. As a result, we show that cosmic bounds are actually refined through the use of Padé treatments and the thus derived best values of the cosmographic parameters show slight departures from the standard cosmological paradigm. Although all our results are perfectly consistent with the $\Lambda$CDM model, evolving dark energy components different from a pure cosmological constant are not definitively ruled out.

24 pages, 9 figures

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