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Dissipation into quantum-gravity defects can generate a small positive cosmological constant from a primordial universe with none.

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load-bearing objection Clean derivation of a diffusion equation from an Ohmic QG-defect bath that can generate a small positive Λ from zero; the noise-neglect assumption is the real soft spot. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2607.03272 v1 pith:U2HRKYJI submitted 2026-07-03 gr-qc astro-ph.COcond-mat.otherhep-th

Dark energy genesis: modeling dissipative effects in primordial cosmology

Pietro Pellecchia , Alejandro Perez , Salvatore Ribisi This is my paper
classification gr-qc astro-ph.COcond-mat.otherhep-th
keywords unimodular gravitydissipative cosmologydark energy genesisquantum-gravity defectsOhmic bathCaldeira-Leggett modeldiffusion equationcosmological constant
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This paper argues that if spacetime is only an effective description of more fundamental discrete structure, energy can leak from ordinary matter into that structure, and the leak appears in cosmology as a dynamical cosmological constant. Working inside unimodular gravity, the authors introduce a hidden sector of “quantum-gravity defects” that couples only to matter and acts as a thermal bath. For the concrete case of an Ohmic bath (the same linear coupling used for Brownian motion), they derive a diffusion equation that converts matter energy into a positive dark-energy term. Starting from zero dark energy at early times, the cosmological constant grows and freezes at a late-time value set by the dimensionless coupling and the initial Hubble rate, which can be tuned to the observed tiny density. The construction therefore supplies a microscopic mechanism for the origin of dark energy rather than treating it as an arbitrary constant.

Core claim

In unimodular cosmology, energy exchange between a scalar field and a bath of harmonic oscillators (quantum-gravity defects) produces an Ohmic diffusion equation that drives an initially vanishing cosmological constant to a positive asymptotic value Λ∞ = (γ mp Hd)/2, thereby generating the observed dark energy from primordial dissipation alone.

What carries the argument

The Ohmic bath of quantum-gravity defects: a continuum of oscillators linearly coupled to the matter field in unimodular time, whose damping kernel collapses to a local friction term and yields the diffusion equation Λ′/8πG = β̄ mp (ρ + p) a⁻³ after mass renormalization.

Load-bearing premise

The stochastic noise that must accompany any dissipative bath can be set to zero for the whole history, which is justified only by assuming the defects start in a sufficiently cold, low-entropy state at the big bang.

What would settle it

A measurement (or a more complete calculation that retains the noise) showing that the late-time cosmological constant receives an additive thermal contribution comparable to or larger than the observed dark-energy density would rule out the noiseless Ohmic scenario.

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Summary. The paper constructs an effective cosmological model in unimodular gravity in which a dynamical cosmological constant is generated by energy exchange between ordinary matter and a hidden sector of “quantum gravity defects.” After reducing the unimodular action to FLRW variables, the authors introduce a Caldeira–Leggett-type Ohmic bath of harmonic oscillators that couples only to a scalar field. Solving the bath equations, renormalizing the scalar mass, and discarding the stochastic force yields a closed diffusion equation for Λ. Starting from Λ_d = 0, a first-order solution produces a positive asymptotic value Λ_∞ = (γ m_p H_d)/2 that can be made observationally small by a suitable choice of the free parameters γ and ρ_d. Numerical integration confirms the analytic late-time attractor.

Significance. If the construction is accepted, it supplies a concrete microscopic realization of the phenomenological diffusion paradigm previously used in unimodular cosmology, replacing an ad-hoc ansatz for Λ′ with a derived Langevin equation. The result that a vanishing primordial dark energy can be driven to a small positive constant by Ohmic dissipation is a clean, falsifiable prediction within the model’s assumptions. The work also clarifies the Hamiltonian origin of the unimodular cosmological constant and the conditions under which a hidden sector preserves the volume-preserving diffeomorphism symmetry. These features make the paper a useful conceptual step for the quantum-gravity-inspired dark-energy literature, even though quantitative contact with data remains limited by the free parameters and the low-entropy initial-state postulate.

major comments (2)
  1. Section IV, after Eq. (33), and Appendix A: the central claim Λ_∞ = γ m_p H_d / 2 rests on setting the stochastic force ξ(t) identically to zero. Appendix A shows that a non-vanishing primordial defect temperature T_d produces an additive late-time piece 8π T_d^{4} / m_p^{2} independent of γ. The only justification offered is an extra low-entropy postulate on the initial state of the bath. Because this postulate is not derived from the Ohmic construction and can easily dominate the desired 10^{-120} value, the paper should either (i) quantify the upper bound on T_d required for the noise contribution to remain sub-dominant, or (ii) present the noisy dynamics as the generic case and treat the noiseless limit as a special initial condition.
  2. Section III, paragraph following Eq. (18): the requirement that the hidden Hamiltonian H_D depends neither on v nor on p_v is imposed by hand to preserve the unimodular continuity and Raychaudhuri equations. While this choice is consistent with volume-preserving diffeomorphisms, it is not shown to be the unique or most natural coupling of Planck-scale defects to geometry. A brief discussion of what happens if a weak geometric coupling is allowed (or a reference to a more general analysis) would strengthen the claim that the construction is the “simplest modeling of dissipation in unimodular cosmology.”
minor comments (5)
  1. Figure 1 caption and surrounding text: the numerical values of γ, ρ_d and the units of Λ are given, but the corresponding value of a_d (or H_d) used in the integration is not stated; adding it would make the plot fully reproducible.
  2. Eq. (36): the definition γ ≡ 2 β-bar / a_d^{3} introduces a factor of 2 whose origin is not explained; a short remark would help the reader.
  3. Section IV, massless case: the restriction M = 0 is said to “essentially give the same overall behavior,” yet no massive numerical example is shown; a single massive curve in Fig. 1 or a short analytic remark would make the claim more transparent.
  4. References [5] and [6] appear with arXiv numbers that look provisional; verify that the final published citations (if available) are used.
  5. Typographical: “ans¨ atze” (p. 2) and “Lemaˆ ıtre” (p. 2) contain residual encoding artifacts that should be cleaned.

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No significant circularity: diffusion equation and Λ∞ are derived from the Ohmic bath Hamiltonian; γ is free and not fitted to data; self-citations supply only motivation.

full rationale

The paper’s central claim—that an initially vanishing cosmological constant is driven to a positive asymptotic value Λ∞ = (γ m_p H_d)/2 by Ohmic dissipation—is obtained by direct solution of Hamilton’s equations for a Caldeira–Leggett-type bath of harmonic oscillators linearly coupled to a scalar field (Eqs. 19–40). The diffusion equation (34)/(37) is not inserted by hand; it follows from evaluating the on-shell total Hamiltonian after the Ohmic condition (26) and mass renormalization. The free dimensionless coupling γ is never fitted to observational data inside the paper; the observed Λ_obs ∼ 10^{-120} is used only as a target that can be matched by some (γ, ρ_d) pair. Self-citations to earlier phenomenological UG papers ([7–9] and related works by overlapping authors) appear solely for historical motivation and for the general unimodular framework; they do not supply any algebraic step of the new derivation. The sole non-derived assumption is the neglect of the stochastic force ξ(t), justified by a low-entropy initial-state postulate (Appendix A); that is a modeling choice, not a circular reduction of the claimed result to its inputs. Consequently the derivation chain is self-contained against external benchmarks and exhibits no self-definitional, fitted-prediction, or load-bearing self-citation circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 4 axioms · 2 invented entities

The central claim rests on the unimodular framework (already in the literature), the introduction of a new hidden sector of harmonic oscillators, the Ohmic spectral-density assumption that localizes the memory kernel, the neglect of the accompanying noise, and one free dimensionless coupling. These ingredients are listed exhaustively below.

free parameters (2)
  • γ (dimensionless diffusion strength) = illustrative value 10^{-4}; observationally required value ~10^{-120} × (m_p/H_d)
    Controls the rate of energy transfer into the defects and sets the asymptotic value Λ_∞ ∝ γ. Chosen by hand (e.g. 10^{-4} for numerics); must be tuned together with ρ_d to match the observed dark-energy density.
  • ρ_d (initial matter energy density at onset of dissipation)
    Sets the initial Hubble scale H_d that appears in Λ_∞. Free within the model; only its product with γ is constrained by the observed Λ.
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption Unimodular gravity is the correct effective theory that permits a dynamical cosmological constant sourced by non-conservation of the stress-energy tensor.
    Adopted from the outset (Sec. II) and used to obtain the modified Friedmann and continuity equations; not re-derived.
  • ad hoc to paper The hidden sector couples exclusively to matter fields and not to the geometric variables (v, p_v).
    Imposed in Sec. III to guarantee that Hamilton’s equations remain compatible with the unimodular cosmological equations; no independent justification is given.
  • ad hoc to paper The spectral density of the defect bath is strictly Ohmic, turning the memory kernel into a local friction term after mass renormalization.
    Chosen in Sec. IV for analytic tractability; other spectral densities would produce non-local integro-differential equations.
  • ad hoc to paper The stochastic noise ξ(t) can be neglected because the defects begin in a low-entropy, unexcited state at the big bang.
    Stated in Sec. IV and Appendix A; required for the clean analytic result Λ_∞ = γ m_p H_d / 2.
invented entities (2)
  • quantum gravity defects (QG-defects) no independent evidence
    purpose: Provide a concrete hidden sector that absorbs energy from ordinary matter, thereby sourcing a dynamical cosmological constant.
    Introduced in Sec. III as a toy model for unresolved Planck-scale degrees of freedom; no independent observational handle is supplied.
  • Ohmic bath of harmonic oscillators linearly coupled to the scalar field no independent evidence
    purpose: Realize a local, Markovian diffusion equation that can be solved analytically and numerically.
    Directly imported from the Caldeira–Leggett model and specialized to unimodular time; the spectral density is postulated rather than derived from a quantum-gravity calculation.

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In various approaches to quantum gravity, spacetime geometry is understood to emerge from more fundamental discrete structures at the Planck scale. As sometimes posited, their presence could lead to dissipative effects in the smooth effective sector. In this paper, we develop the idea of non-conservation in gravity, by introducing an effective cosmological model within unimodular gravity, in which a varying cosmological constant arises as a consequence of dissipation. We show that this requires to incorporate hidden degrees of freedom -- termed quantum gravity defects -- that act as an effective bath for the matter fields. To illustrate the viability of the framework, we study the case of an Ohmic bath inspired by the Caldeira-Leggett model for Brownian motion, leading to a diffusion equation for the matter energy density. The results show that, starting from a primordial universe with no dark energy, dissipation can account for the generation of a small positive cosmological constant.

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