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Hubble Tension and Dark Energy in Teleparallel Gauss-Bonnet Gravity: New Constraints from DESI BAO, Pantheon and Hubble Data

arXiv:2601.10127 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2026/07/024

Abstract

We explore the cosmological dynamics of a teleparallel Gauss-Bonnet gravity model defined by the torsion scalar and the torsion-based Gauss-Bonnet invariant , deriving modified Friedmann equations for a flat FLRW Universe and corresponding linear scalar perturbation equations. Using a numerical approach, we solve these equations for pressureless matter, predicting the redshift evolution of the Hubble parameter . Using a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis based on late-time observations from Cosmic Chronometers, Pantheon without SH0ES, and DESI BAO Data Release 1 and Data Release 2, we constrain the model parameters and show that this class of cosmologies can mimic an effective dark-energy component without introducing an explicit cosmological constant. We further examine the scalar perturbation sector of the posterior-supported cosmological branch and find that the solutions considered in this work remain well-behaved within the adopted perturbative treatment. The model yields a present-day effective equation-of-state parameter in the range to , consistent with late-time observations, and shifts the inferred value of toward --, suggesting a partial alleviation, though not a complete resolution, of the Hubble tension.

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