GraphNPE recovers a significantly lower central density for Boötes I consistent with a core while Draco remains marginally cuspy, and demonstrates that higher-order velocity moments reduce bias in dynamical modeling.
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Cold and Fuzzy Dark Matter
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Cold dark matter (CDM) models predict small-scale structure in excess of observations of the cores and abundance of dwarf galaxies. These problems might be solved, and the virtues of CDM models retained, even without postulating {\it ad hoc} dark matter particle or field interactions, if the dark matter is composed of ultra-light scalar particles (m ~ 10^{-22}eV), initially in a (cold) Bose-Einstein condensate, similar to axion dark matter models. The wave properties of the dark matter stabilize gravitational collapse providing halo cores and sharply suppressing small-scale linear power.
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A semiclassical tunneling model shows that two-field ultralight DM halos have stability bounds that can be relaxed for some density-mass ratios but become more stringent across much of the parameter space compared to single-field cases.
Tachyonic instabilities from post-inflation curvature reorganization via quadratic Gauss-Bonnet coupling produce the observed dark matter relic density across wide mass and scale ranges, backed by lattice simulations and a fitting function.
Derives the power spectrum evolution and cross-spectra for arbitrary multi-species wave and particle dark matter, incorporating free-streaming, Jeans scales, and intrinsic fluctuations.
A quenched-disorder approach with Schwinger-Keldysh path integrals produces an averaged density matrix for gravitational waves that separates phase-suppressing exponential terms from oscillatory corrections to coherent propagation.
Mixing of ultralight wave dark matter fields creates a wave-envelope structure with intrinsic slow modulation and frequency sidebands, violating the standard monochromatic assumption.
Stochastic inflationary fluctuations cannot supply the large dark-Higgs displacement required for broad parametric resonance production of vector dark matter, but a classically sourced Hubble-induced minimum can, with distinct relic scaling and consistency conditions.
Gravitationally condensed Proca stars are sizably but not maximally spin-polarized, with core spin set by random elliptical polarization of the dominant mode rather than a universal fraction.
Imaginary wormholes and the IDB imply that towers of BPS EFT instantons generate infinitely many superpotential terms that break non-invertible axion shift symmetries in N=1 axiverse models.
In warm inflation with Υ∝T³, a residual inflaton condensate after rapid drop in Q evolves as cold dark matter with mass fixed at m≈0.02 MeV by the observed abundance.
Exact solution of non-minimally coupled massive Klein-Gordon equation in Schwarzschild star metric expressed via general Heun function after geometry-induced coordinate transformation.
The equilibrium radius of self-gravitating dark fermion stars is determined by the fermion mass once the total mass is given, with the Bohm potential supplying outward pressure for heavier species and inward tension for lighter ones.
Time-resolved optical polarimetry of the Crab pulsar is used to place bounds on the axion-photon coupling via oscillating axion fields induced by the pulsar's magnetic field.
Quartically self-interacting massive boson stars are stable only up to the first mass maximum; their head-on mergers yield a boson-star remnant, a black hole at contact, or two black holes formed before contact, with radiated energy varying non-monotonically at strong coupling.
New upper limits on the dark photon kinetic mixing parameter ε are derived from geomagnetic data for masses between 1e-15 and 2e-13 eV, improving prior ground-based constraints.
Ultralight scalar dark matter amplifies the lepton-flavor-violating muon-to-positron conversion rate via an effective Majorana mass m_μe, yielding new constraints on flavor-off-diagonal neutrino couplings from SINDRUM II, COMET, and Mu2e bounds.
Derives suppression of adiabatic perturbations and scale-dependent growth of isocurvature power in warm wave dark matter, verifies with Schrödinger-Poisson simulations, and proposes an analytic halo mass function.
Josephson junctions can detect ultralight boson potentials through induced phase shifts, enabling probes of photophilic scalars, Lorentz-violating scalars, and axion monopole-dipole interactions depending on source polarization.
Relativistic metric backreaction from scalar dark matter clouds in EMRIs produces dominant polar gravitational wave corrections for Mμ ≲ 0.12, exceeding axial and scalar radiation channels at small separations.
Vortex reconnections in BEC/superfluid dark-matter cores can transfer at most 0.06–4.5% of the virial energy in 10 Gyr under fiducial assumptions, so they cannot appreciably restructure the core.
A new AMR solver for the time-dependent GPP system is developed and validated on nonlinear test problems, preserving conservation laws and resolving wave features.
In a decaying dark matter plus semi-cosmographic dark energy cosmology constrained by DESI BAO and ShapeFit, the spherical collapse threshold stays close to the ΛCDM value while massive halo abundance shows pronounced deviations that enable joint constraints on DDM lifetime and dark energy parameter
A symbiotic axion-dilaton system sources a moderately chiral dark U(1) magnetic field of astrophysically relevant strength during radiation domination through tachyonic amplification without fine-tuning.
Finite cores in low-mass dark matter halos produce distinct complex residuals in LISA-band wave-optics amplification that cannot be fully mimicked by lower-concentration NFW profiles and peak at rc/rs ≃ 0.25-0.3.
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Dark Matter in Draco and Bo\"otes I: Hints of a Core in an Ultra-Faint Dwarf from Simulation-Based Inference
GraphNPE recovers a significantly lower central density for Boötes I consistent with a core while Draco remains marginally cuspy, and demonstrates that higher-order velocity moments reduce bias in dynamical modeling.
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Tunneling and tidal stripping in multifield ultralight dark matter halos
A semiclassical tunneling model shows that two-field ultralight DM halos have stability bounds that can be relaxed for some density-mass ratios but become more stringent across much of the parameter space compared to single-field cases.
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Tachyonic gravitational dark matter production after inflation
Tachyonic instabilities from post-inflation curvature reorganization via quadratic Gauss-Bonnet coupling produce the observed dark matter relic density across wide mass and scale ranges, backed by lattice simulations and a fitting function.
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Growth of Structure in Multi-species Wave Dark Matter
Derives the power spectrum evolution and cross-spectra for arbitrary multi-species wave and particle dark matter, incorporating free-streaming, Jeans scales, and intrinsic fluctuations.
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Gravitational-wave lensing beyond rays: a disordered-system approach
A quenched-disorder approach with Schwinger-Keldysh path integrals produces an averaged density matrix for gravitational waves that separates phase-suppressing exponential terms from oscillatory corrections to coherent propagation.
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Wave-envelope dark matter beyond the monochromatic paradigm
Mixing of ultralight wave dark matter fields creates a wave-envelope structure with intrinsic slow modulation and frequency sidebands, violating the standard monochromatic assumption.
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Parametric Resonance of Higgsed Vector Dark Matter: Inflationary Initial Conditions and Sourced Displacements
Stochastic inflationary fluctuations cannot supply the large dark-Higgs displacement required for broad parametric resonance production of vector dark matter, but a classically sourced Hubble-induced minimum can, with distinct relic scaling and consistency conditions.
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Spin Polarization of Proca Stars Formed by Gravitational Bose--Einstein Condensation
Gravitationally condensed Proca stars are sizably but not maximally spin-polarized, with core spin set by random elliptical polarization of the dominant mode rather than a universal fraction.
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Non-invertible symmetries in the axiverse, and the imaginary wormholes
Imaginary wormholes and the IDB imply that towers of BPS EFT instantons generate infinitely many superpotential terms that break non-invertible axion shift symmetries in N=1 axiverse models.
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Dark Matter as an Inflationary Relic in Warm Inflation
In warm inflation with Υ∝T³, a residual inflaton condensate after rapid drop in Q evolves as cold dark matter with mass fixed at m≈0.02 MeV by the observed abundance.
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Exact Solution of the Non-minimally Coupled Klein-Gordon Equation in the Schwarzschild Star
Exact solution of non-minimally coupled massive Klein-Gordon equation in Schwarzschild star metric expressed via general Heun function after geometry-induced coordinate transformation.
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Self-gravitating quantum stars with a globally relevant Bohm potential
The equilibrium radius of self-gravitating dark fermion stars is determined by the fermion mass once the total mass is given, with the Bohm potential supplying outward pressure for heavier species and inward tension for lighter ones.
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Searching for axions with time resolved pulsar polarimetry
Time-resolved optical polarimetry of the Crab pulsar is used to place bounds on the axion-photon coupling via oscillating axion fields induced by the pulsar's magnetic field.
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Massive boson stars: Stability and GW emission in head-on mergers
Quartically self-interacting massive boson stars are stable only up to the first mass maximum; their head-on mergers yield a boson-star remnant, a black hole at contact, or two black holes formed before contact, with radiated energy varying non-monotonically at strong coupling.
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Searching for dark photon dark matter from terrestrial magnetic fields
New upper limits on the dark photon kinetic mixing parameter ε are derived from geomagnetic data for masses between 1e-15 and 2e-13 eV, improving prior ground-based constraints.
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Amplifying muon-to-positron conversion in nuclei with ultralight dark matter
Ultralight scalar dark matter amplifies the lepton-flavor-violating muon-to-positron conversion rate via an effective Majorana mass m_μe, yielding new constraints on flavor-off-diagonal neutrino couplings from SINDRUM II, COMET, and Mu2e bounds.
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Early Growth of Structure in Warm Wave Dark Matter
Derives suppression of adiabatic perturbations and scale-dependent growth of isocurvature power in warm wave dark matter, verifies with Schrödinger-Poisson simulations, and proposes an analytic halo mass function.
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Searching for ultralight bosons with Josephson junction interferometry
Josephson junctions can detect ultralight boson potentials through induced phase shifts, enabling probes of photophilic scalars, Lorentz-violating scalars, and axion monopole-dipole interactions depending on source polarization.
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Relativistic signatures of scalar dark matter in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals
Relativistic metric backreaction from scalar dark matter clouds in EMRIs produces dominant polar gravitational wave corrections for Mμ ≲ 0.12, exceeding axial and scalar radiation channels at small separations.
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Vortex-reconnection energy bounds in Bose-Einstein-condensed and superfluid dark matter halos
Vortex reconnections in BEC/superfluid dark-matter cores can transfer at most 0.06–4.5% of the virial energy in 10 Gyr under fiducial assumptions, so they cannot appreciably restructure the core.
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Time-dependent adaptive mesh refinement solver for the Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson equations
A new AMR solver for the time-dependent GPP system is developed and validated on nonlinear test problems, preserving conservation laws and resolving wave features.
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Spherical Collapse and Halo Formation in a Cosmology with Decaying Dark Matter and a Semi-Cosmographic Dark Energy
In a decaying dark matter plus semi-cosmographic dark energy cosmology constrained by DESI BAO and ShapeFit, the spherical collapse threshold stays close to the ΛCDM value while massive halo abundance shows pronounced deviations that enable joint constraints on DDM lifetime and dark energy parameter
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Symbiotic Magnetogenesis during Radiation Domination
A symbiotic axion-dilaton system sources a moderately chiral dark U(1) magnetic field of astrophysically relevant strength during radiation domination through tachyonic amplification without fine-tuning.
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Finite-Core Signatures in LISA-Band Wave-Optics Lensing by Low-Mass Dark Matter Halos
Finite cores in low-mass dark matter halos produce distinct complex residuals in LISA-band wave-optics amplification that cannot be fully mimicked by lower-concentration NFW profiles and peak at rc/rs ≃ 0.25-0.3.
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Wave-Tide Locking in Thin Stellar Streams: A Phenomenological Mass Spectrometer for an Intermediate Ultralight Axion
An analytic relation between tidal radius, gravitational Bohr radius, and axion de Broglie wavelength yields a mass estimator for intermediate ultralight axions of order 10^{-19} eV from observed stellar stream widths.
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Sensitivity forecasts for gravitational-wave detectors to dark matter decaying into gravitons
Model-independent forecasts for the stochastic gravitational-wave background from ultralight dark matter decaying into gravitons and the sensitivity of current and future detectors to this signal.
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Gravitational Wave Birefringence from Fuzzy Dark Matter
Fuzzy dark matter induces frequency-dependent amplitude birefringence in gravitational waves with periodic time modulation set by the scalar mass, but no velocity birefringence.
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Ultra-light axion constraints from Planck and ACT: the role of nonlinear modelling
Naive nonlinear modelling of non-cold matter produces an artificial preference for a subdominant ultralight axion dark matter component at m ≈ 10^{-24} eV via a lensing-like enhancement in the CMB power spectrum.
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Self-Interaction Bounds on Ultralight Dark Matter Couplings to Matter
Self-interaction bounds from cosmology constrain ultralight dark matter couplings to neutrinos, electrons, and light quarks via unavoidable quantum loop corrections.
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Dark ages bounds on non-accreting massive compact halo objects
Upper bounds on the dark matter fraction in MACHOs of 10^3 to 10^7 solar masses are derived from limits on distortions to the global 21-cm signal at z~17, z~89, and z>300.
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Ultralight dark matter mixed with primordial black holes
In mixed ULDM-PBH halos the continuum PBH contribution alters soliton structure at the tens-of-percent level while discrete shot noise induces mode transitions too slow to matter on galactic timescales.
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Late-Time Cosmology and Structure Formation in Quadratic $f(Q)$ Gravity
Quadratic f(Q) gravity adds an H^4 term to the Friedmann equation and introduces a time-dependent G_eff that suppresses linear growth and halo abundance, offering a modified-gravity route to easing the S8 tension.
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MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST) Science White Paper I: Overview of Large-Scale Structure Cosmology in the Era of Stage-V Spectroscopic Surveys
MUST is a planned 6.5m Stage-V spectroscopic survey telescope targeting 100M+ galaxies and quasars to z~5.5 for large-scale structure cosmology studies.
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Cosmological searches for the neutrino mass scale and mass ordering
Thesis summarizing an upper limit of 0.12 eV on the neutrino mass sum, bias calibration via CMB lensing cross-correlations, and tighter limits plus stronger normal-ordering preference in non-phantom dynamical dark energy models.
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On Searches for Gravitational Dark Matter with Quantum Sensors
Gravitational dark matter candidates with masses in [10^{-3}, 1] eV could produce a measurable effective time variation of the proton mass with future atomic clocks.
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Constraints on Ultralight Scalar and Dark Photon Dark Matter from PPTA-DR3 and EPTA-DR2
Bayesian analysis of PPTA-DR3 and EPTA-DR2 finds no statistically significant ULDM signals and sets 95% CL upper limits on scalar and dark photon dark matter, improving prior bounds in most mass ranges.
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Testing Scalar Field Dark Matter models in M31 galaxy through the Rotation Curve analysis
Fuzzy dark matter with smooth cored halos provides the most consistent description of M31's rotation curve among scalar field models when paired with a two-bulge baryonic configuration.
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Echoes of Global Cosmic Strings
Global cosmic strings from symmetry breaking produce Nambu-Goldstone bosons whose cosmological signatures can be constrained by current and upcoming CMB and large-scale structure observations.
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Axions as Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Dark Radiation
A mini-review of axion phenomenology showing how light bosons can account for dark matter, drive cosmic acceleration, or contribute to relativistic backgrounds in the early and late Universe.
- Lyman-$\alpha$ forest constraints on pure and mixed fuzzy dark matter
- Yukawa-Screened Bose-Star Condensation
- Ultralight dark matter in long-baseline accelerator neutrino oscillations
- Boson star-black hole binaries: initial data and head-on collisions