Dark Matter and The Anthropic Principle

TL;DR

This paper examines how the density of dark matter influences galaxy formation within the landscape approach, finding that current constraints are too loose to determine specific axion parameters anthropically.

Contribution

It provides a quantitative analysis of dark matter density bounds necessary for galaxy formation in the context of the axion landscape model.

Findings

Dark matter density must be within specific bounds for galaxy formation.

Constraints are too loose to determine axion decay constants anthropically.

Galaxy formation criteria impose limits on cosmological parameters.

Abstract

We evaluate the problem of galaxy formation in the landscape approach to phenomenology of the axion sector. With other parameters of standard LambdaCDM cosmology held fixed, the density of cold dark matter is bounded below relative to the density of baryonic matter by the requirement that structure should form before the era of cosmological constant domination of the universe. Galaxies comparable to the Milky Way can only form if the ratio also satisfies an upper bound. The resulting constraint on the density of dark matter is too loose to select a low axion decay constant or small initial displacement angle on anthropic grounds.