Does the inverse distance ladder rule out late-time solutions to the Hubble tension? A model-independent test using DES-Dovekie supernovae and DESI DR2 BAO

It has been argued that the inverse distance ladder disfavours late-time solutions to the Hubble tension. We test this with a cosmographic expansion where $H$ is a fourth-order polynomial in $1 - a$. We combine the uncalibrated DES-Dovekie SNIa with DESI~DR2 BAO, assuming a standard sound horizon $r