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Fourteen proposed fixes for the Hubble tension, scored on shared CMB, BAO, and supernova data, leave a clear winner — early dark energy and early modified gravity — and no fully successful solution.

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load-bearing objection The definitive H0-tension bake-off: careful and transparent, but the 'clear hierarchy' claim rests on ACT more than the abstract lets on. the 3 major comments →

arxiv 2607.13283 v1 pith:DRNT2KLB submitted 2026-07-14 astro-ph.CO hep-ph

The H₀ world cup. II. A comprehensive competition between proposed Hubble tension solutions

classification astro-ph.CO hep-ph PACS 98.80.-k98.80.Es
keywords Hubble tensionearly dark energycosmic microwave backgroundsound horizonmodel comparisondark radiationneutrino massDESI BAO
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Cosmology's sharpest anomaly is the Hubble tension: local distance measurements put the expansion rate near 73 km/s/Mpc while the standard cosmological model calibrated on the early universe yields about 67–68, a disagreement now quoted above 7σ. This paper stages a competition among fourteen proposed fixes — late-time expansion changes, altered recombination, extra dark radiation, and early dark-energy injection — run through one shared analysis of current CMB, BAO, and supernova data and scored with both frequentist and Bayesian statistics. Its central claim is that a clear hierarchy emerges: only the early-universe mechanisms that shrink the sound horizon (early dark energy, and gravity modified before recombination) cut the residual tension to roughly 2.5–3σ and are strongly preferred over the standard model, while modified recombination and extra radiation leave 4–5σ tensions and late-time fixes barely help. No model fully resolves the discrepancy. The paper also shows the ranking leans heavily on one data set: remove the ACT measurements and most radiation and recombination models recover to 3–3.5σ.

Core claim

On its own terms, the paper's finding is a hierarchy. In the baseline analysis, ΛCDM sits at a 5.4σ (ΔDMAP) tension with the locally calibrated supernova magnitude, and no contender closes the gap completely. The best performers are early-time mechanisms: axion-like early dark energy reaches a residual 2.5σ with −ΔAIC ≈ 23 and log-Bayes ≈ 10.5; early modified gravity, Rock'n'Roll, and NEDE cluster at 2.7–3.1σ. The varying-electron-mass model is the only non-early contender to pass the selection thresholds, at roughly 4σ; radiation and late-time groups stay near or above 4.5σ. Without ACT data, most radiation and recombination models recover to 3–3.5σ, so the preference for early dark energy

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the comoving sound horizon at recombination: models that shrink it push the CMB-inferred expansion rate upward through the angular-diameter-distance degeneracy, and the whole contest is about which mechanism does this without wrecking the fit to the CMB damping tail and lensing. The scoring apparatus is a single shared pipeline — Planck PR4, ACT DR6, and SPT-3G CMB likelihoods with fixed multipole cuts, DESI DR2 BAO, Pantheon+ supernovae, and a Gaussian prior on the supernova absolute magnitude — evaluated with both a frequentist tension metric (ΔDMAP) and a Bayesian parameter-shift metric, plus two preference criteria (−ΔAIC and the log-Bayes factor). All fourteen

Load-bearing premise

The ranking assumes the combined CMB dataset (Planck PR4, ACT DR6, SPT-3G, with the chosen multipole cuts) is internally consistent with no significant double-counting — and the paper's own no-ACT runs show this assumption is load-bearing, since dropping ACT lets most radiation and recombination models recover from ~5σ to 3–3.5σ.

What would settle it

Run the baseline with ACT DR6 replaced by an independent high-multipole CMB dataset, or with ACT and SPT jointly recalibrated: if the radiation and recombination models then recover to 3–3.5σ while early dark energy stays near 2.5–3σ, the headline hierarchy is an ACT artifact; if they remain near 5σ, the hierarchy is physics. A second check: tighten BBN deuterium and helium measurements — the paper finds these worsen the early-dark-energy models by +0.4 to +0.7σ, enough to push them toward the ΛCDM tension level.

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If this is right

  • If the hierarchy holds, the productive path to resolving the Hubble tension runs through pre-recombination physics that shrinks the sound horizon; late-time fixes and weakly interacting extra radiation are observably disfavored.
  • ACT data carry the ranking: the claim that radiation and recombination solutions fail is contingent on ACT's high-multipole measurements, and would weaken if those data were revised.
  • The leading early-dark-energy models are exactly the ones most squeezed by BBN light-element abundances and by the DES Y6 clustering amplitude, so better deuterium and helium measurements and large-scale-structure data are the sharpest independent tests.
  • Allowing a running of the primordial spectrum restores the dark-radiation models to 3–3.5σ tension, so conclusions about radiation mechanisms cannot be separated from assumptions about the initial power spectrum.
  • Models that ease the tension also dilute the DESI preference for dynamical dark energy, linking the two anomalies.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A near-term decisive test is an ACT–SPT cross-calibration at high multipoles: if ACT's preference for extra small-scale power turns out to be a calibration artifact, the paper's own no-ACT numbers suggest the early-dark-energy lead would collapse to a near-tie with radiation and recombination models at 3–3.5σ.
  • The running-spectrum rescue of the radiation models hints that one shared modification — a blue-tilted primordial spectrum — could mimic either an early-dark-energy or a dark-radiation solution depending on which model family is fitted; a joint fit of both classes together with running parameters would settle which mechanism is actually needed.
  • If early dark energy is real, it should leave correlated imprints beyond the CMB — a higher matter-clustering amplitude (S8) and signatures in future high-redshift probes such as 21-cm or CMB spectral-distortion measurements — which current data only weakly constrain.
  • Because the paper scores tension through the supernova magnitude and quotes Bayes factors that it flags as prior-dependent, the absolute significance levels are the least transferable numbers in it; a recalibrated distance ladder would rescale all σ values roughly uniformly, and different priors would move the evidence values by several units — the ordering of mechanisms is the more robust conclus

Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. This paper presents a systematic, model-by-model reassessment of proposed Hubble tension solutions, updating the 'H0 Olympics' framework. Fourteen models (grouped into late-time, recombination, radiation, and early energy-injection mechanisms, plus an early+late hybrid) are fit to a common baseline of CMB data (Planck PR4 CamSpec with multipole cuts, ACT DR6 and SPT-3G 'lite' primary likelihoods, ACT/SPT lensing), DESI DR2 BAO, Pantheon+, and an SH0ES MB prior, with free neutrino mass. Performance is assessed with Frequentist (DMAP, AIC) and Bayesian (parameter shift, Bayes factor) metrics, with thresholds fixed before inspecting the results. The headline finding is that early dark energy-type models (EDE, NEDE, EMG, RnR) reduce the residual tension to ~2.5-3.1 sigma and are strongly preferred by AIC/BF, while recombination and dark-radiation models fare worse and late-time models fail; no model fully resolves the tension. The robustness section varies CMB likelihoods, SN samples, neutrino-mass priors, S8, baryonic feedback, and BBN, and the authors explicitly show that removing ACT changes the ranking substantially.

Significance. If correct, this is an important field-level result: it sharpens the case that early-time sound-horizon reduction is the only currently viable mechanism class, and it places quantitative constraints on the viability of other proposals. The analysis has real strengths: metrics and thresholds are pre-registered, both Bayesian and Frequentist rankings agree, the neutrino mass sum is varied, and the robustness tests include alternative CMB likelihoods, extended multipole cuts, DES Dovekie, BBN, and S8. The paper ships public code/chain repositories (with a placeholder for analysis notebooks) and is transparent about the ACT-dependence. The central quantitative exercise is careful and reproducible. However, the robustness of the headline hierarchy hinges on the internal consistency of the ACT+Planck data combination, which is not independently validated, and the knockout round contains one untested finalist (EMG) in the BBN analysis.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. IV E, VI; Tables VIIIa-VIIIb vs Table VI] The headline 'clear hierarchy' is ACT-dependent. In the baseline, DeltaNeff, SIDR, and WZDR have ln BF = -0.09, -1.42, and 1.77, respectively; without ACT these become 9.33, 9.54, and 9.91, and the residual tensions drop to ~3-3.5 sigma (DRMD Delta_shift = 2.8 sigma, NEDE 2.3 sigma). The paper explicitly states that ACT is 'central to the stronger baseline constraints on groups R and M and to the clearer preference for group E' (Sec. VI). Yet no cross-calibration or consistency test between ACT DR6 and Planck PR4 is performed, despite the known 2-3 sigma ACT-vs-Planck Neff discrepancy cited in Sec. IV E. Because the headline ranking is precisely the difference between the with-ACT baseline and the no-ACT case, this is load-bearing; the claim of a 'clear hierarchy' should be made conditional on the relative calibration of the two experiments or supported by an explicit null test (e.g., AC
  2. [Sec. V G, Table X] The EMG model is excluded from the BBN tests because 'specific modifications of BBN theory codes are required.' This matters because BBN constraints worsen all other tested finalists by +0.4-0.7 sigma in Delta_shift(MB) (for example, EDE from 3.0 to 3.5-3.7, NEDE from 2.7 to 3.2-3.5), and because EMG is a headline member of group E. The authors' statement that Ref. [252] bounds 'likely apply' is not a substitute for running the test. The conclusion that early dark energy injection 'minimally and non-minimally coupled to gravity' currently performs best is therefore not fully supported for EMG. Please either implement the BBN treatment for EMG or explicitly restrict the robustness claim to models for which BBN was computed.
  3. [Sec. II L and Tables V-VI] The 'Agnos. Reion.' case is not compared on the same data vector, because the SROLL2 low-ell EE likelihood is removed. Its Total chi2 = 5575.66 vs LambdaCDM's 5970.34, and Delta chi2 = -394.68, are not measures of model performance but of data removal. Reporting this row in the same model-comparison tables (DeltaAIC, ln BF) is inconsistent with the paper's stated 'common datasets, likelihoods' framework. Mark this row as not comparable, or re-run it against a LambdaCDM baseline that also drops SROLL2, or remove it from the common ranking tables. This does not change the Group E/R/M ordering, but it is a methodological flaw in a competition whose purpose is fair comparison.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Abstract vs Sec. VI] The abstract says 'four broad mechanisms,' while the conclusions and figures distinguish five categories including 'Group E+L.' Please make the count consistent.
  2. [Acknowledgments] The reproducibility statement contains a placeholder: 'A repository containing the analysis outputs and reproducibility notebooks is available at XXX.' This must be replaced with a working URL before publication.
  3. [Table XI, DRMD row] In the +w0,wa columns, the entries for f_idm and log10(zstop) appear transposed: f_idm is bounded by physics to be < 1, yet is listed as '>2.4', while log10(zstop) is listed as '<0.023'. Check and correct the column ordering.
  4. [Abstract] The name 'Chevallier-Polarski-Lindner' should be 'Chevallier-Polarski-Linder'.
  5. [Sec. IV F] The alpha_s/beta_s extension parameterization is discussed as a robustness test for group R, but the paper notes that full-shape galaxy clustering and Lyman-alpha constraints are not included. This caveat is reported, but it should be repeated in the conclusions where 'Deviations from a pure power-law ... substantially improve' group R models, so readers do not over-interpret the rescue.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: model parameters are fitted to external likelihoods and the headline residual tensions compare the CMB+BAO+SN prediction against the external SH0ES MB calibration, with the pipeline cross-validated against independent published results; the paper's self-citations are not load-bearing.

full rationale

Walking the derivation chain: each contender's parameters are fitted to external likelihoods (Planck PR4, ACT DR6, SPT-3G, DESI DR2, Pantheon+), and the tension metrics of Sec. III A (Eqs. 16-20) compare dataset A = CMB+BAO+SN with dataset B = the external SH0ES MB prior, so the reported residual tensions (tables II-IV; the headline 2.2-3.1 sigma for group E) are out-of-sample comparisons rather than quantities defined in terms of themselves. The model-comparison metrics (AIC, Bayes factor, Eqs. 21-24) are standard with explicit complexity penalties, and the thresholds were 'fixed before inspecting the results' (Sec. I, Sec. III C). No fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction: H0 and MB are genuinely inferred from early-Universe data and then confronted with the local calibration. The paper also validates its pipeline against external benchmarks independent of the present authors (e.g., reproducing Ref. [127]'s H0 for modified recombination, Ref. [224]'s alpha_s/beta_s results, and Ref. [111]'s thawing-gravity scaling regime), which per the reviewing rule counts as real independent support. Self-citations do exist -- the framework of Ref. [13] (H0 Olympics), model codes such as [44, 119, 102], and interpretive high-ell spectral-shape claims [92, 123, 153, 223] involve the present authors -- but the competition results are recomputed in-house from public likelihoods, the stated spectral-shape explanations are also referenced to external works (e.g., Refs. [2, 137, 222]) and are consistent with the paper's own fits, and no uniqueness theorem or ansatz is imported from the authors' prior work to force the ranking. The known sensitivity of the headline hierarchy to ACT (Sec. IV E, tables VIIIa-VIIIb; 'ACT data are therefore central to the stronger baseline constraints on groups R and M and to the clearer preference for group E') is explicitly acknowledged by the authors; it is a dataset-robustness/correctness caveat, not internal circularity. The paper also honestly declares its models are 'phenomenological toy models' rather than first-principles theories. Overall the central claim is a standard, self-contained model comparison with external validation; residual minor self-referential framing does not constitute circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

10 free parameters · 8 axioms · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new physical entities: all 14 contenders (axion EDE, cold NEDE, EMG, RnR, thawing gravity, varying electron mass, modified recombination, ΔNeff, SIDR, WZDR, DRMD, ΛsCDM, iDM-DE, and the reionization-agnostic case) are taken from the cited literature, and 'H0 World Cup' is an analysis framework, not a physical postulate. The ledger's fitted parameters are the models' own parameters (constrained by data, as intended) plus the external MB prior and the extension parameters; the axioms are the data-consistency, code-fidelity, and statistical-interpretation assumptions the ranking rests on.

free parameters (10)
  • EDE: f_EDE(zc), log10(zc), Θi = f_EDE<0.090; log10 zc=-3.44±0.10; Θi unconstrained (baseline, Table XI)
    Fitted to CMB+BAO+SN data; these parameters carry the H0 shift that drives the group-E ranking.
  • NEDE: f_NEDE, log10 zc, 3w, Ωφ = f_NEDE=0.135±0.024; log10 zc=3.455±0.044; 3w=2.55±0.26; Ωφ<0.0030
    Fitted model parameters; NEDE sits near the ln BF=3 selection threshold, so its ranking is error-sensitive.
  • EMG: ξσi²/Mpl², σi/Mpl, α_EMG = ξσi²/Mpl²<0.033; σi/Mpl=0.34±0.14; α_EMG=2.54±0.34
    Fitted early-modified-gravity parameters; EMG is a group-E finalist with ln BF≈6.4.
  • Varying electron mass: mearly/melate = 1.0056±0.0048
    Single extra parameter of the best group-M model; residual tension ~4σ and ln BF≈3.5.
  • 4-param recombination: Δz, Agauss, zgauss, σgauss = Δz=2.9±3.4; zgauss=1464±27; Agauss and σgauss unconstrained
    Phenomenological ionization-history parameters; improves fit (Δχ²≈−18) but does not reduce tension.
  • Radiation group: N_ur, N_SIDR_eff, N_wzdr + log10(zt), ΔN_DRMD_eff + f_idm + log10(zstop) = N_ur<0.14; N_SIDR<0.11; N_wzdr<0.25; ΔN_DRMD=0.223±0.096; log10(zt) unconstrained
    Fitted densities/transition redshifts of the group R models, which fail to beat ΛCDM in the baseline.
  • Late-time group: zt (ΛsCDM), ξ_ide (iDM-DE), λTG/σi/ξ (thawing gravity) = zt=6.0±2.4; ξ_ide>−0.10; λTG=1.43±0.32; σi/Mpl=−0.195; ξσi²/Mpl²=−0.040
    Fitted late-time parameters; this group performs worst, with ln BF<0 for most entries.
  • Neutrino mass sum Σmν (free in baseline) = ΛCDM 95% CL <84 meV; up to <123 meV (varying me); <120 meV (Agnos. Reion.)
    Freely varied with a flat prior >0; the model-dependent bounds are a stated deliverable and affect the H0–Σmν degeneracies.
  • MB prior from SH0ES = MB=−19.253±0.027 (gives H0=73.26±0.98 when combined with Pantheon+)
    External tension reference adopted in the baseline; the 'local' pillar against which residual tension is measured.
  • Extension parameters: Ωk, (w0, wa), (αs, βs) = Ωk=0.0012±0.0012; w0=−0.846±0.054, wa=−0.52±0.20 (ΛCDM); αs=0.0122±0.0057, βs=0.0144±0.088
    Fitted late-time and primordial-spectrum extensions tested against each contender in Secs. IV C, IV D, IV F.
axioms (8)
  • domain assumption CLASS v3.3 plus the stated model forks (AxiCLASS, TriggerCLASS, ClassIG, DRMD-CLASS, schoeneberg/class_public_versions) computes the background and perturbation observables for all 14 models accurately.
    Sec. II, IV A. The entire ranking rests on these implementations matching the published physics of each proposal; no independent cross-code validation of the modified forks is provided beyond the cited references.
  • domain assumption The combined Planck PR4 + ACT DR6 + SPT-3G CMB dataset is internally consistent under the chosen multipole cuts (CamSpec ℓ<1000 TT, ℓ<600 EE), with ignorable inter-experiment covariance.
    Sec. IV A. Load-bearing: the paper's own no-ACT runs (Sec. IV E) show the ranking changes materially without ACT.
  • domain assumption The adopted MB=−19.253±0.027 prior (SH0ES) and the Pantheon+ catalogue are unbiased calibrations of the supernova distance scale.
    Sec. IV A. All residual-tension numbers are computed against this reference.
  • domain assumption The OLE emulator does not bias the posteriors (accuracy is tested during sampling).
    Sec. II. Speedup from emulation is essential to the many-model many-dataset design.
  • standard math Standard Bayesian and Frequentist model-comparison statistics (AIC, MCEvidence log-evidence, parameter-shift significance via Eqs. 19–20) are valid for these highly non-Gaussian posteriors.
    Sec. III. The metrics are textbook, but their threshold interpretation (finalist selection) is a choice.
  • domain assumption Phenomenological toy implementations represent the physical mechanisms (instantaneous electron-mass transition; 4-parameter ionization parametrization for PMF-induced recombination; NEDE two-field potential).
    Secs. II E, II F. The paper concedes the 4-param recombination model 'can still perform significantly better than this simple approximation'.
  • domain assumption BBN light-element abundances computed with PRyMordial using PArthENoPE or PRIMAT rates correctly bind the models; EMG and thawing gravity are exempted because their BBN is non-trivial.
    Sec. V G. The paper notes tight BBN bounds 'likely apply' to EMG/thawing gravity but does not compute them.
  • domain assumption Flat priors and the stated ranges on model parameters (Table I, Sec. II) are appropriate; Bayes factors inherit these prior choices.
    Secs. II, III B 2. The paper itself states Bayes factors depend on the adopted priors.

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Cosmology stands at a crossroads. The Hubble tension has reached a nominal significance above $7\sigma$, while analyses combining DESI BAO and Type Ia supernova data show emerging hints of departures from $\Lambda$CDM. Meanwhile, high-precision CMB measurements from ACT and SPT enable a timely and more stringent reassessment of proposed solutions to the tension. In this paper, we revisit the $H_0$ Olympics, a systematic contest comparing proposed alternatives to $\Lambda$CDM using common datasets, likelihoods, and statistical criteria. In this updated edition, the $H_0$ World Cup, we subject fourteen representative solutions to a common analysis of current CMB, BAO, and SN data. The contenders span four broad mechanisms: late-time modifications of the expansion history, modified recombination, additional pre-recombination radiation, and early non-radiative energy injection. Relative to the original analysis, the present competition includes models and mechanisms proposed in the intervening years and evaluates all contenders using both Bayesian and Frequentist tests of tension and model performance, letting the neutrino mass sum vary. We further test if late-time extensions through curvature or the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL) dark energy parametrization can aid the success of the models. Finally, we subject the leading contenders to dedicated robustness tests involving alternative CMB likelihoods and multipole cuts, supernova samples, large-scale-structure information, and big-bang nucleosynthesis constraints. This framework assesses both the ability of each mechanism to ease the Hubble tension and the robustness of our conclusions to datasets and analysis choices.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.13283 by Angelo G. Ferrari, Fabio Finelli, Julien Lesgourgues, Luca Morelli, Markus R. Mosbech, Nils Sch\"oneberg, Ravi Kumar Sharma, Th\'eo Simon, Vivian Poulin.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1: Frequentist summary of the group-stage performance for the baseline dataset. The left [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2: Bayesian summary of the group-stage performance for the baseline dataset. The left panel [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3: 68% and 95% credible regions for the models competing in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4: Whisker plot of constraints for the CMB+BAO+SN data, as summarized also in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6: Comparison of the 95% CI for the summed neutrino mass. The dotted colored lines [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7: 68% and 95% credible regions for the models competing in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9: 68% and 95% credible regions for the models competing in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: FIG. 12: 68% and 95% credible regions for the models competing in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: FIG. 13: 68% and 95% credible regions for the models competing in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: FIG. 14: Summary of the results of section V in terms of the shift metric ∆ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: FIG. 15: 68% and 95% parameter constraints for the knockout round models when the extended [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p040_15.png] view at source ↗
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