Testing for monotonicity in the Hubble diagram

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General relativistic kinematics and the cosmological principle alone imply a monotonicity constraint in the Hubble diagram, which we confront to present-day supernova data. We use the running gradient method of statistical inference by Hall & Heckman (2000). We find no significant departure from monotonicity. The method seems well adapted and we recommend its use with future data.
5 pages, 3 figures

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/120230

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https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612556
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