Why the DESI Results Should Not Be A Surprise

2025/03/22 by Robert Brandenberger, Brandenberger, Robert · 1 voice · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2503.17659

Abstract

The recent DESI results provide increasing evidence that the density of dark energy is time-dependent. I will recall why, from the point of view of fundamental theory,, this result should not be surprising.

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