Many schemes have been proposed to define a model-independent con- straint on cosmological dynamics, such as the nonparametric dark energy equation of state ω(z) or the deceleration parameter q(z). These methods ...Many schemes have been proposed to define a model-independent con- straint on cosmological dynamics, such as the nonparametric dark energy equation of state ω(z) or the deceleration parameter q(z). These methods usually contain deriva- tives with respect to observational data with noise. However, there can be large un- certainties when one estimates values with numerical differentiation, especially when noise is significant. We introduce a global numerical differentiation method, first for- mulated by Reinsch, which is smoothed by cubic spline functions, and apply it to the estimation of the transition redshift zt with a simulated expansion rate E(z) based on observational Hubble parameter data. We also discuss some deficiencies and limita-tions of this method.展开更多
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文摘Many schemes have been proposed to define a model-independent con- straint on cosmological dynamics, such as the nonparametric dark energy equation of state ω(z) or the deceleration parameter q(z). These methods usually contain deriva- tives with respect to observational data with noise. However, there can be large un- certainties when one estimates values with numerical differentiation, especially when noise is significant. We introduce a global numerical differentiation method, first for- mulated by Reinsch, which is smoothed by cubic spline functions, and apply it to the estimation of the transition redshift zt with a simulated expansion rate E(z) based on observational Hubble parameter data. We also discuss some deficiencies and limita-tions of this method.