Nonparametric reconstruction of the Om diagnostic to test LCDM

TL;DR

This paper introduces a nonparametric method to reconstruct the Om diagnostic for testing the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model, revealing a preference for a dark energy equation of state w = -2/3, indicative of a static domain wall network.

Contribution

It presents a novel nonparametric reconstruction technique using Loess-Simex to analyze the Om diagnostic without relying on priors or specific cosmological models.

Findings

Reconstructed Om diagnostic favors w = -2/3.

Method relaxes priors in cosmological data analysis.

Supports the static domain wall network as a dark energy candidate.

Abstract

Cosmic acceleration is usually related with the unknown dark energy, which equation of state, w(z), is constrained and numerically confronted with independent astrophysical data. In order to make a diagnostic of w(z), the introduction of a null test of dark energy can be done using a diagnostic function of redshift, Om. In this work we present a nonparametric reconstruction of this diagnostic using the so-called Loess-Simex factory to test the concordance model with the advantage that this approach offers an alternative way to relax the use of priors and find a possible 'w' that reliably describe the data with no previous knowledge of a cosmological model. Our results demonstrate that the method applied to the dynamical Om diagnostic finds a preference for a dark energy model with equation of state w =-2/3, which correspond to a static domain wall network.