How Holographic is the Dark Energy? A Spline Nodal reconstruction approach
arXiv:2507.22292 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2026/05/058
The paper investigates a generalized holographic dark energy model by reconstructing its density‑horizon relation with a spline‑based non‑parametric function and tests it against current cosmological observations using Bayesian analysis.
Abstract
In this work, we explore the generalized holographic dark energy (HDE) scenario. We relate the HDE density to the future-horizon scale via a non-parametric function, which is reconstructed via spline-based nodal interpolation. We perform a Bayesian analysis to assess the model consistency with current observations, including baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) DR1, Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Union3 and Pantheon+ compilations, and local measurements of the Hubble constant, , from SH0ES. We show that under specific conditions, the model reduces to CDM with one node. We find strong statistical evidence against the standard HDE model, and in contrast, the reconstructed HDE model, with three nodes, provides a better fit to the data than the CDM model, indicating a strong statistical preference for the reconstructed model.
18 pages, 6 figures; matches the version published in JCAP