IR Correlations of the QCD Vacuum, UV/IR Coupling, and the Dark-Energy Scale

EN: IR QCD vacuum correlations generate a testable nonlocal hadronic contribution numerically close to the observed dark-energy scale.This manuscript is part of a series of 17 papers (A–S). For a compact self-contained guide to the full program, including epistemic levels, falsification roadmap, and all DOIs, see the program summary: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19218767 Abstract We consider a mechanism in which infrared correlations of the QCD vacuum induce, in the EFT of gravity, a nonlocal gravitational contribution of the form T·G·T, where G denotes the Green function of the flat-space d'Alembertian operator. After fixing the local term by a renormalization condition in the flat-space limit, a nonlocal…