期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/05/009
关键词
cosmological parameters from CMBR; cosmological parameters from LSS; cosmology of theories beyond the SM; dark energy theory
资金
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science [DE-SC0019206, DE-SC0021277]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0019206] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
The paper introduces a Bayesian interpretation of inconsistency measures that can extract information about physical inconsistencies from data scatter. There are two different behaviors in the quantification of inconsistency as the number of model parameters increases. The Bayesian interpretation resolves the ambiguity found when considering inconsistencies in higher-dimensional parameter spaces, providing a stable interpretation for cosmological tensions.
Measures of inconsistency and tension between datasets have become an essential part of cosmological analyses. It is important to accurately evaluate the significance of such tensions when present. We propose here a Bayesian interpretation of inconsistency measures that can extract information about physical inconsistencies in the presence of data scatter. This new framework is based on the conditional probability distribution of the level of physical inconsistency given the obtained value of the measure. We use the index of inconsistency as a case study to illustrate the new interpretation framework, but this can be generalized to other metrics. Importantly, there are two aspects in the quantification of inconsistency that behave differently as the number of model parameters increases. The first is the probability for the level of physical inconsistency to reach a threshold which drops with the increase of the number of parameters under consideration. The second is the actual level of physical inconsistency which remains rather insensitive to such an increase in parameters. The difference between these two aspects is often overlooked, which leads to a long-standing ambiguity: when a given inconsistency is found between two constraints, its significance seems to be lower when considered in a higher-dimensional parameter space. This ambiguity is resolved by the Bayesian interpretation we introduce in this work because the conditional probability distribution includes all the statistical information of the level of physical inconsistency. Finally, we apply the Bayesian interpretation to examine the (in)consistency between Planck versus the Cepheid-based local measurement, the Dark Energy Survey (DES), the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and WMAP. We confirm and revisit the degrees of previous physical inconsistencies and show the stability of the new interpretation with respect to the number of cosmological parameters compared to the commonly used n-sigma interpretation when applied to cosmological tensions in multi-parameter spaces.
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