TITLE:
An Information-Topographic Field Approach to Resolving the Hubble and S8 Tensions: The ITF Field Force
AUTHORS:
Bruno Wayne Salter
KEYWORDS:
Cosmology, Big Bang, Inflation, Tensions, Gravity
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology,
Vol.12 No.3,
July
7,
2026
ABSTRACT: This paper introduces the Information-Topographic Field (ITF), a covariant vector field, that reinterprets the gravitational sector by encoding large-scale informational organization in the cosmic web. It emerges from a discrete dual-lattice structure on a primary equatorial-singular potential, with parity-breaking into a three-to-five-unit state with six-unit orientational excitations, resulting in a coherence-dependent source density
ρ
ITF
. We derive the minimal covariant action, field equations, and the quasi-static weak-field limit, showing that
ρ
ITF
modifies the Poisson equation through a single parameter
A=0.0172
, determined by lattice geometry and coherence considerations. Implementing the ITF in the CLASS Boltzmann code, we compute low-redshift observables and compare them with four independent datasets: SH0ES (
H
0
=73.8±1.0
km/s/Mpc), KiDS (
S
8
=0.766±0.018
), DES-Y3 (
S
8
=0.774±0.022
), and HSC-Y3 (
S
8
=0.752±0.026
). The ITF corrections consistently alleviate the nominal
H
0
and
S
8
tensions, reducing discrepancies to below
1σ
without introducing additional free parameters or empirical tuning. This implementation modifies the background and perturbation evolution equations effectively, without introducing new propagating degrees of freedom, providing a minimal, coherence-driven modification to gravity that links cosmic informational organization to observable gravitational effects.