Is MOND an Emergent Effective Law of a Complex Dark Matter Sector?

arXiv:2609.29495 · gr-qc, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

gr-qc, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-08-24

Terminology

• Decoupling — 29× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Anisotropy — 12× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gravitational Lensing — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• N-body simulations — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Non-Gaussianity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Matter Power Spectrum — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Primordial non-Gaussianity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accretion Shock — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bispectrum — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• Self-interacting dark matter solves the final parsec problem of supermassive black hole mergers
• Dark Matter Halos as Particle Colliders: A Unified Solution to Small-Scale Structure Puzzles from Dwarfs to Clusters
• Formation and Evolution of the Self-Interacting Dark Matter Halos
• Galaxy stability within a self-interacting dark matter halo
• Polytropic dark halos of elliptical galaxies
• Dark matter concentrations in galactic nuclei according to polytropic models
• Galactic Halos of Fluid Dark Matter
• Evidence for Dark Matter Self-Interactions via Collisionless Shocks in Cluster Mergers
• Self-Interacting Dark Matter
• Observational evidence for self-interacting cold dark matter
• Cores in Dwarf Galaxies from Dark Matter with a Yukawa Potential
• Dark Matter and Dark Radiation
• Repulsive Dark Matter
• Dark Fluid: a complex scalar field to unify dark energy and dark matter
• Probing the cold nature of dark matter
• When Dark Matter Heats Up: A Model-Independent Search for Non-Cold Behavior
• An Analytic Scale-dependent Dark Matter Profile and the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation

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