{"id":"b2f2a087-44de-4708-8d92-13016a8affac","arxiv_id":"astro-ph/0403622","paper_version":3,"verdict":"CONDITIONAL","confidence":"MODERATE","novelty_score":5.0,"correctness_risk":"medium","formal_verification":"none","parameter_count":6,"one_line_summary":"A non-linear coupling between matter and curvature makes dark energy grow as the universe expands and curvature drops, yielding power-law cosmic acceleration whose equation of state is fixed by the coupling exponent.","lead":"The paper proposes that dark energy overtakes ordinary matter because the universe's curvature falls as it expands, using a modified gravity term that couples matter to a power of the curvature. If correct, it would explain why cosmic acceleration is happening now without invoking a cosmological constant.","discovery_kind":"unclear","skeptic_critique":{"model":"selfhosted/deepseek-v4.1-flash","headline":"The 'dominance' claim is not demonstrated by the exact solution (8), along which the two action terms scale identically; the dynamical transition to the modified branch, and its stability, rest on an unpublished self-citation (Ref. [16]).","rationale":"The reader's weakest_assumption identifies the right load-bearing concern: whether the power-law solution (8) is a stable attractor that a realistic universe reaches. I agree, and would sharpen it with the paper's own admission that along (8) the two terms are always of the same order, so the exact solution does not itself exhibit dominance; the dominance argument lives on a separate branch and is a consistency check, not a dynamical demonstration. The stability result is delegated to Ref. [16], which is listed as 'to appear in Phys.Rev. D' and is a self-citation, so under the citation rules it is a legitimate target rather than a published result the authors may simply quote. The paper does supply the perturbation equations (9)-(10), which is a point in its favor, but without the constants A1, A2, A3 the reader cannot verify the stability conclusion, and the statement that inhomogeneity does not grow for w < -1 is asserted. I also note a concrete internal inconsistency in the potential example: w = (α-1)/(α-3) yields quintessence, not phantom, for 1 < α < 2, contradicting the sentence that follows the formula; this is a real error but secondary to the central claim, which rests on the non-linear-coupling model of Section 2. The paper is appropriately modest, calling the models proposals and flagging that comparison with data is future work, so the conditional verdict is right. The concern I raise does not move the verdict; it reinforces why CONDITIONAL rather than ACCEPT is correct. The concrete test above would settle whether the mechanism actually produces dominance dynamically, which is the one thing the paper leaves to an unpublished self-citation.","tokens_in":9294,"tokens_out":8833,"duration_ms":155517,"concrete_test":"Numerically integrate the background equation (7) together with the scalar constraint (6) from an Einstein-dominated initial condition (large R, modified term negligible) forward in time for a representative accelerating case, e.g. α = 3 (which gives w = -1/2), and plot the ratio (R/μ²)^α L_d / (R/κ²). If the ratio stays bounded or decays rather than growing monotonically, the 'gravity assisted dominance' mechanism does not operate for that α and the central claim fails. As a cross-check, compute the constants A1, A2, A3 in Eq. (9) explicitly and check the sign of the growing mode; if the solution (8) has a growing perturbation, the attractor premise is undermined independently of Ref. [16].","verdict_should_be":"UNCHANGED","load_bearing_attack":"The paper's own text concedes the key structural point: 'For the solution (8), the first and second terms in (1) are of the same order. This is true for both of the early time (small t) and late time (large t) epochs.' Along a ∝ t^{(α+1)/3}, R ∝ t^{-2} and R^α L_d ∝ a^{-6} R^{-α} ∝ t^{-2}, so the ratio of the modified term to the Einstein term is a constant fixed by a_0 — dark energy never actually 'becomes dominant' on this branch. The dominance argument is then made on a separate branch where the second term is assumed to dominate ('Let us take the case that the second term is dominant and the first term may be neglected'), yielding h_0 from a quadratic and a scaling R^α L_d ∝ t^{2α-6h_0}. That is a self-consistency check of an assumed dominance, not a demonstration that a universe starting in the Einstein regime flows onto it. The transition — the actual content of 'gravity assisted dominance' — is exactly the attractor question, and the paper delegates it: 'In [16], the stability of the solution (8) has been investigated.' Ref. [16] is listed as 'to appear in Phys.Rev. D' and is a self-citation by the same authors, so the load-bearing stability result is not independently available here. The paper does print the perturbation equations (9)-(10), but the constants A1, A2, A3 are never given, and the conclusion that inhomogeneity 'does not grow up when w < -1' is asserted rather than shown. A secondary, concrete error: in the potential example, w = (α-1)/(α-3) gives w ∈ (-1,0) for 1 < α < 2, so the sentence 'If 1 < α < 2, we obtain an effective phantom with w < -1' contradicts the formula immediately above it (phantom requires α > 2).","agreement_with_reader":"agree"},"referee_report":{"model":"selfhosted/deepseek-v4.1-flash","summary":"The manuscript proposes that dark energy dominance can arise from the decrease of spacetime curvature as the universe expands. The authors add a non-linear gravity-matter coupling (R/µ²)^α L_d to the Einstein-Hilbert action (Eq. 1), derive power-law solutions a ∝ t^{(α+1)/3} (Eq. 8), and map them to an effective equation of state w = (1-α)/(1+α). For α > 2 the solution accelerates with quintessence-like w; for α < -1 the time-reversed branch gives an effective phantom with w < -1. The letter also considers a scalar-potential extension (Eqs. 14-15), a modified-gravity model f(R)L_d (Eqs. 16-17), and a non-covariant model with time-dependent coefficients α(t), β(t) (Eqs. 18-22). The central claim is that the same expansion that dilutes matter drives dark energy to dominance, and that w is a derived function of the coupling exponent rather than a fitted parameter.","tokens_in":9789,"tokens_out":17041,"duration_ms":299939,"significance":"If the mechanism operates, it offers a natural explanation for why dark energy dominates at the present epoch (because R is small now) and makes w a function of a single coupling exponent, which is a genuine predictive structure rather than a fit. The explicit power-law solutions are checkable, and the quintessence branch (α > 2) gives w ∈ (-1, -1/3), consistent with current data at the background level. However, the dynamical claim — that a universe starting in the Einstein regime flows onto the dark-energy-dominated branch — is not demonstrated in this letter; it is delegated to an unpublished self-citation. The significance is therefore conditional on that stability and attractor analysis.","major_comments":[{"comment":"The exact solution does not exhibit dominance. The paper states this explicitly, then argues dominance on a separate branch where the second term is assumed dominant ('Let us take the case that the second term is dominant and the first term may be neglected'). That is a self-consistency check of an assumed dominance, not a demonstration that a universe starting in the Einstein regime reaches it. The transition is the actual content of 'gravity assisted dominance,' and it is not shown here. The paper should either provide the transition analysis or state clearly that the mechanism is a model-building postulate whose dynamical realization is deferred.","section":"Section 2, Eq. (8) and the paragraph beginning 'For the solution (8), the first and second terms in (1) are of the same'","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The stability of (8) is delegated to Ref. [16], which is listed as 'to appear in Phys.Rev. D' and is a self-citation by the same authors; the load-bearing result is therefore not independently available in this letter. The constants A1, A2, A3 (and the mentioned but absent A4) are not given, so Eq. (9) cannot be checked. Moreover, the inhomogeneity conclusion ('does not grow up when w < -1') applies only to the phantom branch; for the quintessence branch (α > 2), which the paper says 'naturally describes current cosmic speed-up,' no stability conclusion is drawn, and Eq. (10) suggests the k² terms may dominate at large t. This is a gap in the main viable case.","section":"Section 2, stability paragraph and Eqs. (9)-(10)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"This is internally inconsistent. With w = (α-1)/(α-3), for 1 < α < 2 the numerator is positive and the denominator negative, so w ∈ (-1, 0), i.e., quintessence, not phantom. The phantom regime w < -1 requires 2 < α < 3, where h_0 = (α-3)/(3(α-2)) < 0, so that branch is contracting rather than accelerating. The preceding sentence already calls 3/2 < α < 2 (a subset of 1 < α < 2) 'effective quintessence,' so the two sentences contradict each other. The phantom claim in this example should be corrected or removed.","section":"Section 2, potential example, Eq. (15) and the sentence 'If 1 < α < 2, we obtain an effective phantom with w < -1'","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"No calculation or reference is given. The coupling introduces higher-derivative terms (the EMT (3) contains ∇_µ∇_ν R^{α-1}L_d), and the paper itself cites [9], [10] on instabilities and deviations from Newton gravity. A short explicit calculation, or a citation to one, is needed; otherwise the viability claim is unsupported.","section":"Section 2, sentence 'One can also show that corrections to Newton law in this scenario are small'","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The argument that 'if α > 0, there does not appear φ in the perturbed action' is made around the trivial background R = H = φ = 0, not around the cosmological solution (8). Since the actual universe has R ≠ 0, the perturbative argument does not establish the equivalence-principle claim for the relevant background. This should be extended to the cosmological background or explicitly qualified.","section":"Section 2, equivalence-principle paragraph","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The action with time-dependent coefficients α(t), β(t) is non-covariant, and the paper acknowledges this, but the variational prescription is not stated: α(t) and β(t) depend on the metric through H, so varying with respect to g_µν is ambiguous unless one specifies whether they are varied. Eq. (19) is presented without derivation and appears dimensionally inconsistent (the first two terms scale as mass², the third as mass^{-2} with α_0 ~ mass^{-2}). Eq. (20) is typeset as a garbled radical and its derivation from (19) is not shown; the large-|h_0| limit of (19) gives w = -1 ± (2/3)√(-α_0 κ²/3), which does not obviously reduce to (20). The claim that this model 'may origin from more fundamental covariant gravity-matter system' rests on footnote [17], which is a sketch, not a derivation.","section":"Section 3, Eq. (18) and Eq. (20)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null}],"minor_comments":[{"comment":"There are several typographical errors: 'accelera tion' in the title, 'expiriences' and 'Particulary' in the Introduction, 'accelerationg' after Eq. (8), 'auxilliary' before Eq. (11), 'tp appear' in Ref. [16], 'origin' for 'originate' in Section 3, and 'H ashirimizu' in the affiliation.","section":"Title and Introduction","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The text says 'with constants A1, A2, A3, and A4,' but A4 does not appear in Eq. (9). Either A4 should be defined or the sentence corrected.","section":"Eq. (9)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The expression for a_0^6 contains the factor (2α-1)(α-1); for 1/2 < α < 1 this is negative, so no real a_0 exists. The allowed range of α for real solutions should be stated. For α < -1, the factor (α+1)^{α+1} has a negative base and a non-integer exponent, which needs a definition.","section":"Eq. (8)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"At α = -1 the factor (α+1)^{α+1} is 0^0, so the statement that α = -1 gives only the trivial solution H = 0 should be justified separately rather than read off Eq. (8).","section":"Eq. (8) and the α = -1 case","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The sentence 'future of such universe is not necessary finite time singularity' is ungrammatical, and for α < -1 the paper itself finds a Big Rip at t = t_s, so the abstract's phrasing should be qualified. The abstract also says 'Two models' although Section 3 presents a third (time-dependent coefficients).","section":"Abstract","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The symbol α is used both for the coupling exponent in Eq. (1) and for the time-dependent coefficient α(t) in Eq. (18); this is confusing and the two should be distinguished.","section":"Notation","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"For α > 1 the exponent 1/(1-α) is negative, and the potential (e^{-σ} - 1/κ²)^{1/(1-α)} may be ill-defined or ghost-like depending on the sign of e^{-σ} - 1/κ²; the allowed range of α should be commented on.","section":"Eq. (13)","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null},{"comment":"The paper does not compare w = (1-α)/(1+α) with observational constraints (e.g., WMAP or supernova data), even at the order-of-magnitude level; a sentence on the allowed α range would strengthen the letter.","section":"Discussion","authors_acknowledge":null,"authors_acknowledge_p":null}],"recommendation":"major_revision"},"author_rebuttal":null,"desk_editor":{"model":"selfhosted/deepseek-v4.1-flash","letter":"Two things worth knowing up front: the construction is genuinely new, and the headline claim is not actually shown by the paper's own solution. The new bit is the coupling (R/mu^2)^alpha L_d added to Einstein-Hilbert. Because the scalar-field solution gives R^alpha L_d proportional to a^{-6} R^alpha, the term grows as curvature falls. That is a clean, cheap idea, and it is not the same as the 1/R^n gravity it usually gets lumped with. The power-law solution a ~ t^{(alpha+1)/3} is explicit and w = (1-alpha)/(1+alpha) follows directly from it. The auxiliary-field rewrite into Brans-Dicke form (Eqs. 11-13) is done properly, and the two-regime f(R) = aR^alpha + bR^beta sketch is a reasonable early stab at covering inflation and late acceleration with one function. The paper is honest that it fits no data. Now the soft part, and it is load-bearing. The paper says outright that along solution (8) the two terms in the action are of the same order at all times. That is correct: R goes as t^{-2} and R^alpha L_d goes as t^{-2}, so their ratio is a constant fixed by a_0. Dark energy never becomes dominant on that branch. The dominance argument then moves to a separate branch where the second term is assumed to dominate, and the scaling is checked for self-consistency. Fine as far as it goes, but it is not a demonstration that a universe starting in the Einstein regime flows onto it. That transition is the entire content of 'gravity assisted dominance', and it is the attractor question. The paper hands it to Ref. [16], listed as 'to appear' and by the same authors. The perturbation equations (9)-(10) are printed, but A1, A2, A3 never appear, and the claim that inhomogeneity does not grow is asserted. One concrete error: in the potential example, w = (alpha-1)/(alpha-3) gives w between -1 and 0 for 1 < alpha < 2, so the sentence claiming an effective phantom with w < -1 in that range contradicts the formula one line above it. Phantom needs alpha > 2. Minor, but a referee should catch it. Likewise 'corrections to Newton law are small' is stated, not computed. Who should read it: anyone building gravity-matter couplings or early f(R) models. The mechanism is worth knowing and the algebra is checkable. It reads as a proposal paper, which is what it is. Send it out; the idea has legs even if the dominance story needs the follow-up to carry it.","headline":"A genuinely new gravity-matter coupling with checkable power-law solutions, but the 'dominance' claim is not demonstrated by the paper's own solution (8) — the transition is delegated to an unpublished self-citation.","tokens_in":10514,"tokens_out":1994,"duration_ms":38256},"pith_extraction":{"msc":[],"pacs":["98.80.-k","04.50.+h","11.10.Kk","11.10.Wx"],"model":"selfhosted/deepseek-v4.1-flash","headline":"Dark energy may take over simply because the universe expands and the curvature falls, through a nonlinear coupling between gravity and matter.","keywords":["dark energy","cosmic acceleration","modified gravity","phantom energy","quintessence","gravity-matter coupling","Big Rip","f(R) gravity"],"falsifier":"Solve the spatially dependent perturbation equation of the paper's Eq. (10), keeping the $k^2$ terms, and determine whether the power-law solution is an attractor for $α>2$; if the gradient terms grow, the mechanism never gets a chance to operate and the central claim fails.","tokens_in":10559,"feed_emoji":"🌌","tokens_out":3187,"duration_ms":64333,"temperature":0.7,"pith_summary":"The paper asks why dark energy should become the dominant component of the universe precisely now, and proposes an answer that avoids a coincidence: the takeover is driven by the same expansion that dilutes ordinary matter. The authors add to the Einstein action a term in which the dark-energy Lagrangian is multiplied by a power of the curvature, $(R/μ^2)^α L_d$, so that the dark-energy contribution grows relative to the Einstein term as $R$ falls. They exhibit an explicit power-law solution, $a=a_0 t^{(α+1)/3}$, whose effective equation of state is fixed by the coupling exponent alone, $w=(1-α)/(1+α)$, giving effective quintessence for some exponents and effective phantom behaviour for others. A second, phenomenological model with time-dependent coefficients in front of $R$ and a volume term reproduces the same picture, and a two-exponent $f(R)$ variant could in principle cover both early inflation and the present speed-up. If the picture holds, the equation of state of dark energy is a derived function of a coupling exponent rather than a number fitted to data.","feed_headline":"Expansion alone could hand the universe to dark energy","feed_subtitle":"A coupling between curvature and matter makes dark energy grow as space stretches, with no tuned initial condition.","key_machinery":"The load-bearing object is the non-linear gravity-matter coupling $(R/μ^2)^α L_d$ added to $R/κ^2$ in the action. Its role is to make the dark-energy sector's weight track the curvature: because the scalar solution forces $R^α L_d ∝ a^{-6}R^α$, the ratio of the new term to the Einstein term scales as a power of $R$, so a monotonically falling curvature drives one term to dominate without any tuned initial condition. The exponent $α$ then does double duty, setting both the expansion law $a ∝ t^{(α+1)/3}$ and the equation of state $w=(1-α)/(1+α)$, which is what makes the proposal predictive rather than descriptive. A second mechanism carries the same idea in modified-gravity language: allowing the coefficients of $R$ and of a volume term to depend on time, $α(t)R+β(t)$, admits $H=h_0/t$ with $α∝t^4$ and $β∝t^2$, and again $w=-1+2/(3h_0)$, with the sign of the coefficient selecting quintessence or phantom.","core_discovery":"The central claim is that dark energy can overtake standard matter as a direct consequence of cosmic expansion, because expansion lowers the curvature and the proposed gravity-matter coupling grows as curvature falls. Concretely, for a massless scalar with $L_d=-g^{μν}∂_μ φ ∂_ν φ/2$ in a flat FRW universe, the scalar field equation gives $φ̇ = q a^{-3} R^{-α}$, hence $R^α L_d = q^2 R^α/(2a^6)$, which dominates over the Einstein term $R/κ^2$ at small $R$ when $α>-1$ (and at large $R$ when $α<-1$). Substituting this into the field equations yields the exact solution $a=a_0 t^{(α+1)/3}$, which accelerates when $α>2$ and corresponds to $w=(1-α)/(1+α)$; for $α<-1$ the same solution, read with time reversed, is an expanding accelerating universe with $w<-1$, an effective phantom, and it terminates in a finite-time singularity. The authors emphasise that the first and second terms of the action are of the same order in this solution, so the mechanism is not a small correction but a genuinely mixed regime. They extend the construction to a scalar with a potential $V(φ)=V_0 φ^{2-2α}$, where a dominant second term gives $h_0=(α-3)/(3(α-2))$ and $w=(α-1)/(α-3)$, and to $f(R)=aR^α+bR^β$, where the large-$R$ branch gives an early power-law phase and the small-$R$ branch gives the late accelerating phase.","pith_inferences":["The proposal turns the coincidence problem into a geometric statement: the dark-energy fraction is a function of curvature, so its rise is as automatic as the fall of $R$ — a claim that could be checked against the observed drift of $w$ with redshift.","Because the equation of state is tied to the same exponent that sets the expansion law, the model is over-constrained in a useful way: a joint fit to the expansion history and to $w(z)$ would either lock the exponent or rule the class out.","The time-dependent-coefficient model looks like a phenomenological stand-in for a covariant gravity-matter system; if the correspondence in the paper's footnote can be made exact, the two constructions are one mechanism written in two frames.","The stability question is where the idea is most exposed: a growing mode in the spatially dependent perturbation equation would mean the attractor is never reached, which is a calculation rather than an observation and could be settled independently of cosmological data."],"forward_implications":["The dark-energy equation of state becomes a function of a coupling exponent, $w=(1-α)/(1+α)$, so measuring $w$ constrains the gravity-matter coupling rather than being an independent fit.","A single $f(R)=aR^α+bR^β$ structure can give an early power-law (inflationary) phase at large curvature and an accelerating phase at small curvature, unifying two epochs in one action.","Effective phantom behaviour with $w<-1$ arises without a negative-kinetic-energy scalar field, so the usual phantom instabilities need not apply.","The authors argue that when $α>0$ the field $φ$ does not appear in the perturbed action around $R=H=φ=0$, so the equivalence principle need not be violated if ordinary matter does not couple to $φ$ directly.","For $α<-1$ the effective phantom branch still ends in a finite-time singularity, so avoiding Big Rip is not automatic; it depends on which branch the universe occupies."],"supporting_citations":[{"why":"Supplies the gravitational alternative to dark energy, the $1/R^n$ modification of the Einstein action, that this paper generalises to a matter-coupled form.","marker":"[7]"},{"why":"The cited source for the stability analysis of the power-law solution; the paper defers the attractor question to it rather than deriving it.","marker":"[16]"},{"why":"Establishes the phantom dark energy picture, a scalar with negative kinetic energy, which the effective phantom branch is meant to reproduce without that field.","marker":"[3]"},{"why":"Provides the Big Rip finite-time singularity that the effective phantom branch is measured against.","marker":"[4]"},{"why":"Earlier proposal of a higher-derivative kinetic term of the same structural sort, used to position the new coupling relative to prior work on the cosmological constant problem.","marker":"[14]"},{"why":"The authors' own modified-gravity programme with higher-derivative and logarithmic corrections, which the new mechanism is offered as an alternative to.","marker":"[11]"},{"why":"The quintessence references that define the effective quintessence behaviour the model is claimed to reproduce.","marker":"[15]"}],"fun_headline_variants":["Expansion itself can make dark energy dominate","Shrinking curvature flips the universe to dark energy","Gravity-matter coupling turns expansion into acceleration","Phantom dark energy still hits a finite-time singularity","Dark energy wins as curvature falls, with no tuning needed"],"cache_read_input_tokens":0,"weakest_assumption_plain":"The load-bearing premise is that the power-law solution is a stable attractor, so that a universe starting near ordinary Einstein domination actually reaches it; the paper does not derive this, deferring to a cited stability analysis, and its treatment of spatial inhomogeneity in the perturbed equation is asserted rather than demonstrated.","fun_headline_variants_meta":{"raw":{"variants":["Expansion itself can make dark energy dominate","Shrinking curvature flips the universe to dark energy","Gravity-matter coupling turns expansion into acceleration","Phantom dark energy still hits a finite-time singularity","Dark energy wins as curvature falls, with no tuning needed"]},"model":"selfhosted/deepseek-v4.1-flash","effort":"low","attempts":1,"cost_usd":0.0,"raw_usage":{"total_tokens":1762,"prompt_tokens":949,"completion_tokens":813,"prompt_tokens_details":null,"completion_tokens_details":{"reasoning_tokens":751}},"tokens_in":949,"tokens_out":813,"duration_ms":14398,"image_pages":[],"temperature":1.0,"reasoning_budget":50,"reasoning_tokens":751,"transport_provider":"selfhosted","cache_read_input_tokens":0,"cache_creation_input_tokens":0},"cache_creation_input_tokens":0},"created_at":"2026-11-13T08:48:50.893887+00:00","model_set":{"reader":"selfhosted/deepseek-v4.1-flash"},"pipeline_version":"pith-pipeline@v1.5.0-archive-selfhost","input_kind":null,"input_chars":null,"input_total_chars":null,"passes_missing":null,"published_standing":null,"published_confidence":null,"objection_audit":null,"run_record":null,"basis":{"kind":"not_recorded","source":null,"chars_given":null,"chars_total":null},"receipt":null,"falsifier":"Solve the spatially dependent perturbation equation of the paper's Eq. (10), keeping the $k^2$ terms, and determine whether the power-law solution is an attractor for $α>2$; if the gradient terms grow, the mechanism never gets a chance to operate and the central claim fails.","supporting_citations":[{"cited_title":"Is Cosmic Speed-Up Due to New Gravitational Physics?","cited_arxiv_id":"astro-ph/0306438","evidence_quote":"Supplies the gravitational alternative to dark energy, the $1/R^n$ modification of the Einstein action, that this paper generalises to a matter-coupled form."},{"cited_title":"Late-time cosmology in a (phantom) scalar-tensor theory: Dark energy and the cosmic speed-up","cited_arxiv_id":"hep-th/0405034","evidence_quote":"The cited source for the stability analysis of the power-law solution; the paper defers the attractor question to it rather than deriving it."},{"cited_title":"A Phantom Menace? 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