Dark Matter as a Multi-Scale Texture of the Quantum Vacuum
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| author | Bensaid, Daniel |
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| contents | <p>This work explores the possibility that the gravitational phenomena commonly attributed to dark matter may arise from scale-invariant infrared fluctuations of the quantum vacuum. Under the hypothesis that the vacuum energy spectrum follows a nearly scale-invariant behavior at large wavelengths, coarse-grained infrared modes behave as an effective pressureless, collisionless component on galactic and cluster scales.</p> <p>This framework naturally reproduces several empirical regularities, including quasi-universal halo surface densities, density profiles close to an inverse-square radial dependence, flat rotation curves, the radial acceleration relation, and the baryonic Tully–Fisher relation, without introducing new particles.</p> <p>A semiclassical rationale based on stress–energy correlations of long-wavelength vacuum modes is outlined. In this picture, quadratic fluctuations of the vacuum can generate an effective large-scale gravitational component after coarse-graining.</p> <p>A speculative extension suggests that the same infrared sector may also contain an isotropic contribution that becomes dominant on horizon scales and could behave as a cosmological-constant-like term. The proposal is presented as an effective phenomenological framework rather than a complete microphysical theory.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Dark Matter as a Multi-Scale Texture of the Quantum Vacuum Bensaid, Daniel dark matter quantum vacuum scale invariance modified gravity alternatives stochastic gravity cosmology dark energy <p>This work explores the possibility that the gravitational phenomena commonly attributed to dark matter may arise from scale-invariant infrared fluctuations of the quantum vacuum. Under the hypothesis that the vacuum energy spectrum follows a nearly scale-invariant behavior at large wavelengths, coarse-grained infrared modes behave as an effective pressureless, collisionless component on galactic and cluster scales.</p> <p>This framework naturally reproduces several empirical regularities, including quasi-universal halo surface densities, density profiles close to an inverse-square radial dependence, flat rotation curves, the radial acceleration relation, and the baryonic Tully–Fisher relation, without introducing new particles.</p> <p>A semiclassical rationale based on stress–energy correlations of long-wavelength vacuum modes is outlined. In this picture, quadratic fluctuations of the vacuum can generate an effective large-scale gravitational component after coarse-graining.</p> <p>A speculative extension suggests that the same infrared sector may also contain an isotropic contribution that becomes dominant on horizon scales and could behave as a cosmological-constant-like term. The proposal is presented as an effective phenomenological framework rather than a complete microphysical theory.</p> |
| title | Dark Matter as a Multi-Scale Texture of the Quantum Vacuum |
| topic | dark matter quantum vacuum scale invariance modified gravity alternatives stochastic gravity cosmology dark energy |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18494118 |