The $H_0$ tension in light of vacuum dynamics in the Universe

Abstract

Despite the outstanding achievements of modern cosmology, the classical dispute on the precise value of $H_0$, which is the first ever parameter of modern cosmology and one of the prime parameters in the field, still goes on and on after over half a century of measurements. Recently the dispute came to the spotlight with renewed strength owing to the significant tension (at $>3\sigma$ c.l.) between the latest Planck determination obtained from the CMB anisotropies and the local (distance ladder) measurement from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), based on Cepheids. In this work, we investigate the impact of the running vacuum model (RVM) and related models on such a controversy. For the RVM, the vacuum energy density ${\rho }_{\Lambda }$ carries a mild dependence on the cosmic expansion rate, i.e. ${\rho }_{\Lambda }(H)$, which allows to ameliorate the fit quality to the overall $SNIa+BAO+H(z)+LSS+CMB$ cosmological observations as compared to the concordance $\Lambda$CDM model. By letting the RVM to deviate from the vacuum option, the equation of state $w=-1$ continues to be favored by the overall fit. Vacuum dynamics also predicts the following: i) the CMB range of values for $H_0$ is more favored than the local ones, and ii) smaller values for ${\sigma }_8(0)$. As a result, a better account for the LSS structure formation data is achieved as compared to the $\Lambda$CDM, which is based on a rigid (i.e. non-dynamical) $\Lambda$ term.

Accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B. Significantly extended discussion, two figures and references added

References in corpus (14)

• Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing
• Can interacting dark energy solve the $H_0$ tension?
• Indications of a late-time interaction in the dark sector
• Constraining Dark Energy Dynamics in Extended Parameter Space
• Dark energy: a quantum fossil from the inflationary Universe?
• Clarifying the Hubble constant tension with a Bayesian hierarchical model of the local distance ladder
• A blinded determination of $H_0$ from low-redshift Type Ia supernovae, calibrated by Cepheid variables
• Insensitivity of The Distance Ladder Hubble Constant Determination to Cepheid Calibration Modeling Choices
• Vacuum models with a linear and a quadratic term in H: structure formation and number counts analysis
• Dynamical dark energy: scalar fields and running vacuum
• Cosmological discordances II: Hubble constant, Planck and large-scale-structure data sets
• A Comparison of Cosmological Parameters Determined from CMB Temperature Power Spectra from the South Pole Telescope and the Planck Satellite
• Cosmological constant vis-a-vis dynamical vacuum: bold challenging the $\Lambda$CDM
• Median statistics estimates of Hubble and Newton's Constant

Cited by in corpus (124)

• In the Realm of the Hubble tension $-$ a Review of Solutions
• Challenges for $\Lambda$CDM: An update
• Cosmology Intertwined II: The Hubble Constant Tension
• New physics in light of the $H_0$ tension: an alternative view
• Non-minimal dark sector physics and cosmological tensions
• Seven hints that early-time new physics alone is not sufficient to solve the Hubble tension
• Interacting dark energy in the early 2020s: a promising solution to the $H_0$ and cosmic shear tensions
• The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics
• $H_0$ from cosmic chronometers and Type Ia supernovae, with Gaussian Processes and the novel Weighted Polynomial Regression method
• Constraints on the sum of the neutrino masses in dynamical dark energy models with $w(z)\ge -1$ are tighter than those obtained in $\Lambda$CDM
• Prospects for resolving the Hubble constant tension with standard sirens
• A Simple Phenomenological Emergent Dark Energy Model can Resolve the Hubble Tension
• Revisiting a negative cosmological constant from low-redshift data
• $H_0$ Tension, Phantom Dark Energy and Cosmological Parameter Degeneracies
• Running Hubble Tension and a H0 Diagnostic
• General Cosmography Model with Spatial Curvature
• Update on Coupled Dark Energy and the $H_0$ tension
• Dark Energy with Phantom Crossing and the $H_0$ tension
• Possible signals of vacuum dynamics in the Universe
• The galaxy power spectrum take on spatial curvature and cosmic concordance
• Model independent $H(z)$ reconstruction using the cosmic inverse distance ladder
• Brans-Dicke gravity with a cosmological constant smoothes out $\Lambda$CDM tensions
• Constraints on the interacting vacuum -- geodesic CDM scenario
• Running vacuum against the $H_0$ and ${\sigma }_8$ tensions
• Renormalizing the vacuum energy in cosmological spacetime: implications for the cosmological constant problem
• The Cosmological Constant Problem and Running Vacuum in the Expanding Universe
• Constraints on dark energy dynamics and spatial curvature from Hubble parameter and baryon acoustic oscillation data
• Gravity in the Era of Equality: Towards solutions to the Hubble problem without fine-tuned initial conditions
• Density perturbations for running vacuum: a successful approach to structure formation and to the ${\sigma }_8$-tension
• de Sitter Swampland, $H_0$ tension & observation
• Do we have any hope of detecting scattering between dark energy and baryons through cosmology?
• Running vacuum in quantum field theory in curved spacetime: renormalizing ${\rho }_{vac}$ without $\sim m^4$ terms
• Observational constraints on the tilted spatially-flat and the untilted nonflat $\varphi$CDM dynamical dark energy inflation models
• Evidence for Emergent Dark Energy
• The impact of the cosmic variance on $H_0$ on cosmological analyses
• Late-transition vs smooth $H(z)$ deformation models for the resolution of the Hubble crisis
• Reconciling $H_0$ tension in a six parameter space?
• An overview of what current data can (and cannot yet) say about evolving dark energy
• Gravitational and Chiral Anomalies in the Running Vacuum Universe and Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry
• Brans-Dicke cosmology with a $\Lambda$- term: a possible solution to $\Lambda$CDM tensions
• Running vacuum in the Universe: phenomenological status in light of the latest observations, and its impact on the ${\sigma }_8$ and $H_0$ tensions
• Soundness of Dark Energy properties
• Can dark energy be expressed as a power series of the Hubble parameter?
• Relaxing the ${\sigma }_8$-tension through running vacuum in the Universe
• Generalized Emergent Dark Energy Model and the Hubble Constant Tension
• Unbiased Hubble constant estimation from binary neutron star mergers
• An evaluation of cosmological models from expansion and growth of structure measurements
• A double take on early and interacting dark energy from JWST
• Observational constraints on the tilted flat-XCDM and the untilted nonflat XCDM dynamical dark energy inflation parameterizations
• Cosmological dynamics of dark energy in scalar-torsion $f(T,\varphi )$ gravity
• Stringy-Running-Vacuum-Model Inflation: from primordial Gravitational Waves and stiff Axion Matter to Dynamical Dark Energy
• Quantum Anomalies in String-Inspired Running Vacuum Universe: Inflation and Axion Dark Matter
• A fake Interacting Dark Energy detection?
• Emergent Dark Energy, neutrinos and cosmological tensions
• Dynamics and cosmological evolution in Λ-varying cosmology
• Inflationary physics and transplanckian conjecture in the Stringy Running-Vacuum-Model: from the phantom vacuum to the true vacuum
• Planck 2015 constraints on spatially-flat dynamical dark energy models
• Phantom matter: a challenging solution to the cosmological tensions
• Bayesian Evidence against Harrison-Zel'dovich spectrum in tension cosmology
• Tightening the reins on non-minimal dark sector physics: Interacting Dark Energy with dynamical and non-dynamical equation of state
• Alleviating both $H_0$ and ${\sigma }_8$ tensions in Tsallis cosmology
• Metastable dark energy models in light of Planck 2018: Alleviating the $H_0$ tension
• Late time acceleration due to generic modification of gravity and Hubble tension
• Testing dynamical vacuum models with CMB power spectrum from Planck
• A Bayesian interpretation of inconsistency measures in cosmology
• Searching for sterile neutrinos in dynamical dark energy cosmologies
• Exploring neutrino mass and mass hierarchy in interacting dark energy models
• Running vacuum in QFT in FLRW spacetime: The dynamics of ${\rho }_{\mathrm{vac}}(H)$ from the quantized matter fields
• Revisiting Metastable Dark Energy and Tensions in the Estimation of Cosmological Parameters
• Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies
• Dynamical systems methods and statefinder diagnostic of interacting vacuum energy models
• Exploring interacting holographic dark energy in a perturbed universe with parameterized post-Friedmann approach
• Generalized thermodynamic constraints on holographic-principle-based cosmological scenarios
• Growth of matter overdensities in non-minimal torsion-matter coupling theories
• Torsion in string-inspired cosmologies and the universe dark sector
• Alleviating $H_0$ Tension with New Gravitational Scalar Tensor Theories
• Does $\Lambda$CDM really be in tension with the Hubble diagram data?
• Brans-Dicke cosmology mimicking running vacuum
• Constraints on field flows of quintessence dark energy
• Hints for possible low redshift oscillation around the best fit $\Lambda$CDM model in the expansion history of the Universe
• Alleviating $H_0$ tension in Horndeski gravity
• Hubble constant and sound horizon from the late-time Universe
• Friedmann cosmology with decaying vacuum density in Brans-Dicke theory
• Running vacuum in Brans-Dicke theory: a possible cure for the ${\sigma }_8$ and $H_0$ tensions
• Cosmological discordances III: more on measure properties, Large-Scale-Structure constraints, the Hubble constant and Planck
• Running vacuum versus Holographic dark energy: a cosmographic comparison
• Alleviating $H_0$ tension in scalar-tensor and bi-scalar-tensor theories
• Oscillating dark energy in light of the latest observations and its impact on the Hubble tension
• Using newest VLT-KMOS HII Galaxies and other cosmic tracers to test the $\Lambda$CDM tension
• On sign-changeable interaction in FLRW cosmology
• Tight $H_0$ constraint from galaxy redshfit surveys: combining baryon acoustic osillation measurements and Alcock-Paczynski test
• New cosmological constraints on the evolution of dark matter energy density
• Growth of structures and redshift-space distortion data in scale-dependent gravity
• Hints of Neutrino Dark Matter scattering in the CMB? Constraints from the Marginalized and Profile Distributions
• Scalar Field Theory Description of the Running Vacuum Model: the Vacuumon
• Horizon thermodynamics in holographic cosmological models with a power-law term
• Evolution of thermodynamic quantities on cosmological horizon in $\Lambda (t)$ model
• Dynamical systems of cosmological models for different possibilities of $G$ and ${\rho }_{\Lambda }$
• Calibrating Long Period Variables as Standard Candles with Machine Learning
• String-Inspired Running Vacuum, the "Vacuumon", and the Swampland Criteria
• Energy stored on a cosmological horizon and its thermodynamic fluctuations in holographic equipartition law
• Addressing the Hubble tension in Yukawa cosmology?
• Bayesian Comparison of Interacting Modified Holographic Ricci Dark Energy Scenarios
• The effects of running gravitational coupling on three dimensional black holes
• Evolution of dissipative and non-dissipative universes in holographic cosmological models with a power-law term
• Revisiting model-independent constraints on spatial curvature and cosmic ladders calibration: updated and forecast analyses
• Phantom Dirac-Born-Infeld Dark Energy
• Endowing $\mathbf{\Lambda }$ with a dynamic nature: constraints in a spatially curved Universe
• Addressing the DESI DR2 Phantom-Crossing Anomaly and Enhanced $H_0$ Tension with Reconstructed Scalar-Tensor Gravity
• Transient dark energy, cosmological constant boundary crossing and dark energy $w(z)$ data fits
• Constraints on running vacuum models with the baryon-to-photon ratio
• Running vacuum and H^4-inflation
• Generalized Holographic Cosmology: low-redshift observational constraint
• Data Analysis and Phenomenological Cosmology
• Late Time Phenomena in $f(T,\mathcal{T})$ Gravity Framework: Role of $H_0$ Priors
• Cosmic acceleration in asymptotically Ricci flat Universe
• Vacuum Energy and Renormalization of the Field-Independent Term
• A Universe from a Lagrangian Fixed Point
• The dynamics of vacuum, gravity and matter: Implications on the fundamental constants
• Cosmological constraints on the big bang quantum cosmology model
• Analysis of the angular dependence of time delay in gravitational lensing
• Gravitational Waves with Dark Energy
• (Pre)-Inflationary Dynamics with Starobinsky Potential in Noncommutative Effective LQC
• Geodesics in Quantum Gravity