Hubble tension and cosmological imprints of gauge symmetry: as a case study Dilip Kumar Ghosh, Purusottam Ghosh, Sk Jeesun and Rahul Srivastava Eur. Phys. J. C, 84 8 (2024) 853 Published online: 24 August 2024 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13220-8