2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/41933I propose a new mechanism to account for the observed tiny but finite dark energy in terms of a non-Abelian Higgs theory, which has infinitely many perturbative vacua characterized by a winding number, in the framework of inflationary cosmology without introducing any tiny numbers.To be published in Proc. the XVIIIth IAP meeting "On the Nature of Dark Energy."High Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext