Robust Evidence for Dynamical Dark Energy from DESI Galaxy-CMB Lensing Cross-Correlation and Geometric Probes

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Recent analyses joining data from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO), and Type Ia Supernovae (SNIa) have provided strong evidence in favor of dynamical dark energy (DDE) over a simple cosmological constant.

• Motivated by these findings, we present new observational constraints on DDE based on the cross-correlation between DESI Luminous Red Galaxies (LRG) samples and CMB lensing ($\mathrm{CMB}_{\kappa} \times \mathrm{LRG}$), which effectively probes the impact of cosmological parameters on the growth of structure at the perturbative level.
• We demonstrate that, when combined with geometric measurements such as BAO and SNIa, this cross-correlation yields compelling statistical evidence for DDE exceeding $4\sigma$, including within simpler parametrizations such as the $w$CDM model.
• Remarkably, this evidence is independent of constraints from primary Planck CMB anisotropies data.