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The observed cosmological vacuum curvature can be modeled as the final residual of a dynamically active vacuum undergoing progressively more effective compensation across a finite causal hierarchy, allowing observable dark energy to remain almost constant despite large underlying vacuum activity. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Synthesize scalar, nested, and horizon-regulation sectors of the Breathing Universe framework to explain how an active, dynamical vacuum produces an almost constant, tiny cosmological term.

August 30, 2026Open Access

The Breathing Universe: A Dynamical Vacuum Behind an Almost Constant Cosmological Term

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ICIvo Gerlach Angela Noel Cerfontaine

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Theoretical synthesis reveals hierarchical vacuum compensation in cosmological models, suggesting observable dark energy reflects a heavily suppressed residual.

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Synthesize scalar, nested, and horizon-regulation sectors of the Breathing Universe framework to explain how an active, dynamical vacuum produces an almost constant, tiny cosmological term.
Integrated four previous formulations addressing horizon-scale vacuum regulation and scalar vacuum-tension background evolution into a unified hierarchical structure.
Represented vacuum redistribution across organizational levels using complementary delocalizing and localizing components alongside an effective scalar breathing field.
Modeled residual infrared curvature scaling at the cosmological horizon terminal scale as an inverse-square relation, contrasting it with standard volume averaging.
Demonstrated that total compensatory structural content can increase across nested regimes while the net observable vacuum imbalance diminishes toward zero.
Derived a characteristic cosmological-to-Planck vacuum hierarchy of order 10^-122 for scale separations of order 10^61 under horizon-scale coherence regulation.
Showed that a dynamically active breathing vacuum can maintain an observable dark-energy equation of state near w = -1 without requiring static microscopic vacuum energy.

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Ivo Gerlach Angela Noel Cerfontaine (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a93f1176c1a8fb52e79db92 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22150066

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Theoretical synthesis reveals hierarchical vacuum compensation in cosmological models, suggesting observable dark energy reflects a heavily suppressed residual.

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