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MODELS FOR ACCELERATED UNIVERSE EXPANSION, QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS AND ZETA REGULARISATION

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  • European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
  • 30 Dec 2016 to 31 Dec 2020
  • Spain

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Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Barcelona Province (NUTS ES511); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 119,790; EU co-financing EUR 59,895 (co-financing rate 50%), as stated by the source. Runs 2016-12-30 to 2020-12-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS). Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS THE STUDY OF FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE WITH METHODS OF FIELD THEORY (GRAVITY THEORIES, EMPTY FLUCTUATIONS, CASIMIR EFFECT) AND THEIR VERIFICATION THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF OBSERVATIONAL DATA, OBTAINED BY WMAP, PLANCK, BICEP, KECK, ANALYTICALLY- AND NUMERICALLY (BSC/MARENOSTRUM). WHAT IS THE NATURE OF ENERGY CAPABLE OF ACCELERATING THE EXPANSION OF OUR UNIVERSE? WE INTEND TO DESCRIBE THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF ITS EVOLUTION, INCLUDING THE VARIOUS STAGES OF INFLATION, RADIATION DOMAIN, MATTER AND THE CURRENT DARK ENERGY, ALSO ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM OF POSSIBLE FUTURE SINGULARITIES THAT APPEAR IN THE MODELS. TO DETERMINE WITH PRECISION THE TRANSIT AROUND THE VALUE W =-1 OF THE PARAMETER OF THE STATE EQUATION, WHICH CORRESPONDS TO THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT, REPRODUCING THE OBSERVED VALUES WITH VIABLE MODIFIED GRAVITY THEORIC MODELS CAPABLE OF UNIFIEDLY DESCRIBING THE VARIOUS STAGES OF EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE. RECONCILING EINSTEIN’S RG WITH THE NEW EVIDENCE (DARK ENERGY AND MATTER), TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHETHER OR NOT THESE FORCES TO MODIFY THE LAWS OF GRAVITY ON A COSMOLOGICAL SCALE. WE WILL SELECT THEORIES, BOTH NATURAL AND VIABLE, AND CONTRAST THEM WITH THE MOST RECENT DATA AND TO OBTAIN IN MISSIONS SUCH AS DES, EUCLID, JDEM, PARTICIPATED BY RESEARCHERS FROM OUR INSTITUTE. THE ADJUSTMENTS WILL BE MADE USING COMPLEX, NON-LINEAR METHODS AT DIFFERENT TIMES, AT A LEVEL BEYOND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE SO FAR, BECAUSE OUR GROUP IS IN A POSITION TO CARRY IT OUT. THE DATA OBSERVED WILL BE REINTERPRETED ACCORDING TO THE NEW THEORIES, SOME WITH DYNAMIC RUPTURE OF LORENTZ SYMMETRY, NON-LOCAL MODELS AND NEW MASS GRAVITY MODELS. THE DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN THEORIES-A CRUCIAL PROPOSAL THAT URGENTLY NEEDS TO BE CARRIED OUT-WILL BE MADE THROUGH THE STUDY OF COSMOLOGICAL DISTURBANCES, THEIR GROWTH INDEX, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS, ANALYSING EVERYTHING FROM ORIGINAL AND INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVES, IN ORDER TO AVOID AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE [shortened; the full text is on the Kohesio page]

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project focuses on studying fundamental laws of the universe using field theory methods and observational data analysis. It is co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 119,790, running from December 30, 2016, to December 31, 2020, in Barcelona Province, Spain. Suggested technology pillar: simulation. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.

Source: kohesio.ec.europa.eu · checked 21 Oct 2026 · AI-assisted summary