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| Format: | Preprint |
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2025
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19914 |
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- We discuss a cosmological scenario where an effective violation of the strong energy condition (SEC) is realized through a coupling between SEC-fulfilling dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE). Although the SEC-violating solutions might in principle last for an arbitrarily long time, we highlight several challenges that string realizations must face: most notably, these are the identification of suitable heavy states and their relationship with the theory cutoff. Furthermore, we discuss a black-hole argument that still allows for long-lived epochs of cosmic acceleration, but that prevents them from lasting forever. We also discuss negative potentials in the presence of a tower of light states, showing that the DM/DE coupling can push the theory towards regions of parametric control.