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  1. Free, publicly-accessible full text available September 1, 2026
  2. Abstract We consider the classic question posed by Pardo and Spergel about theprice of abandoning dark matter in the context of an invariant,metric-based theory of gravity. Our answer is that the price isnonlocality. This has been known for some time in the context of thequasi-static regime. We show that it also applies for cosmology andwe exhibit a model which reproduces standard CDM successes such asperturbations in the cosmic microwave background, baryon acousticoscillations and structure formation. 
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  3. A<sc>bstract</sc> Recent progress on nonlinear sigma models on de Sitter background has permitted the resummation of large inflationary logarithms by combining a variant of Starobinsky’s stochastic formalism with a variant of the renormalization group. We reconsider single graviton loop corrections to the photon wave function, and to the Coulomb potential, in light of these developments. Neither of the two 1-loop results have a stochastic explanation, however, the flow of a curvature-dependent field strength renormalization explains their factors of ln(a). We speculate that the factor of ln(Hr) in the Coulomb potential should not be considered as a leading logarithm effect. 
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