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Conditions for the cosmological viability of the most general scalar-tensor theories and their applications to extended Galileon dark energy models

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In the Horndeski's most general scalar-tensor theories with second-order field equations, we derive the conditions for the avoidance of ghosts and Laplacian instabilities associated with scalar, tensor, and vector perturbations in the presence of two perfect fluids on the flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) background. Our general results are useful for the construction of theoretically consistent models of dark energy. We apply our formulas to extended Galileon models in which a tracker solution with an equation of state smaller than -1 is present. We clarify the allowed parameter space in which the ghosts and Laplacian instabilities are absent and we numerically confirm that such models are indeed cosmologically viable.

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Testing Dark Energy with Black Hole Ringdown

gr-qc · 2026-03-24 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Dynamical dark energy imprints O(1) shifts on black hole quasi-normal modes via cosmological hair, enabling constraints at 10^{-2} (LVK) to 10^{-4} (LISA) precision using the cubic Galileon as example.

Stable black hole solutions with cosmological hair

gr-qc · 2026-03-23 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Stable black hole solutions with cosmological scalar hair are explicitly derived in the cubic Galileon theory, recovering cosmological behavior at large distances and regular short-range dynamics.

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  • Testing Dark Energy with Black Hole Ringdown gr-qc · 2026-03-24 · unverdicted · none · ref 59 · internal anchor

    Dynamical dark energy imprints O(1) shifts on black hole quasi-normal modes via cosmological hair, enabling constraints at 10^{-2} (LVK) to 10^{-4} (LISA) precision using the cubic Galileon as example.

  • Stable black hole solutions with cosmological hair gr-qc · 2026-03-23 · unverdicted · none · ref 78 · internal anchor

    Stable black hole solutions with cosmological scalar hair are explicitly derived in the cubic Galileon theory, recovering cosmological behavior at large distances and regular short-range dynamics.

  • Heterotic Footprints in Classical Gravity: PM dynamics from On-Shell soft amplitudes at one loop hep-th · 2025-10-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 7 · internal anchor

    Derives conservative potential and scattering angle for charged black holes in EMD theory via one-loop soft amplitudes, showing IR finiteness after Lippmann-Schwinger treatment and smooth reduction to GR.