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In this work, we study two scalar field driven dark energy models characterized by the axion potential and the inverse power law potential, each coupled to dark matter through a momentum exchange interaction. By formulating the dynamics as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-27 Prasanta Sahoo , Nandan Roy , Himadri Shekhar Mondal

Recent analyses from the DESI collaboration suggest that the dark energy density of the Universe may be decreasing with time, slowing the acceleration of the scale factor $a$. Typically these studies are performed assuming an ansatz for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 James M. Cline , Varun Muralidharan

We explore the dynamics of dark energy models based on a Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) tachyonic action, studying a range of potentials. We numerically investigate the existence of tracking behaviour and determine the present-day value of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gianluca Calcagni , Andrew R. Liddle

Scalar Fields (SF) have emerged as natural candidates for dark energy as quintessential or phantom fields, as they are the main ingredient of inflation theories. Instead of assuming some form for the scalar field potential, however, this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-13 J. F. Jesus , R. Valentim , A. A. Escobal , S. H. Pereira , D. Benndorf

Dynamical models for dark energy are an alternative to the cosmological constant. It is important to investigate properties of perturbations in these models and go beyond the smooth FRLW cosmology. This allows us to distinguish different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-04 Manvendra Pratap Rajvanshi , J. S. Bagla

This study explores the dynamics and phase-space behavior of a multi-component dark energy model, where the dark sector consists of a minimally coupled canonical scalar field and the cosmological constant, using a dynamical system analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Prasanta Sahoo , Nandan Roy , Himadri Shekhar Mondal

We revisit the Fractional Holographic Dark Energy (FHDE) model to reconstruct it by means of dynamic candidates such as ($i$) Quintessence, ($ii$) K-essence, ($iii$) Dilaton, ($iv$) Yang-Mills condensate, ($v$) DBI-essence, and ($vi$)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Ayush Bidlan , Paulo Moniz , Oem Trivedi

We study the dynamics of Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) dark energy interacting with dark matter. The DBI dark energy model considered here has a scalar field with a nonstandard kinetic energy term, and has potential and brane tension that are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-07 Chakkrit Kaeonikhom , Douglas Singleton , Sergey V. Sushkov , Nattapong Yongram

The present work is based on the holographic dark energy model with Hubble horizon as the infrared cut-off. The interaction rate between dark energy and dark matter has been reconstructed for three different parameterizations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-28 Ankan Mukherjee

A major quest in cosmology is the understanding of the nature of dark energy. It is now well known that a combination of cosmological probes is required to break the underlying degeneracies on cosmological parameters. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ch. Yeche , A. Ealet , A. Refregier , C. Tao , A. Tilquin , J. -M. Virey , D. Yvon

The dynamical analysis for coupled dark energy with dark matter is presented, where a complex scalar field is taken into account and it is considered in the presence of a barothropic fluid. We consider three dark energy candidates:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-26 Ricardo C. G. Landim

We investigate the interaction between the dark sectors from the point of view of a dynamical system analysis. A general setup for interacting dark energy models that incorporates both quintessence and phantom fields through a switch…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Chonticha Kritpetch , Nandan Roy , Narayan Banerjee

Reconstructing the evolution history of the dark energy equation of state parameter $w(z)$ directly from observational data is highly valuable in cosmology, since it contains substantial clues in understanding the nature of the accelerated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Zhi-E Liu , Hao-Ran Yu , Tong-Jie Zhang , Yan-Ke Tang

We do a comprehensive study of the Bayesian evidences for a large number of dark energy models using a combination of latest cosmological data from SNIa, CMB, BAO, Strong lensing time delay, Growth measurements, measurements of Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-23 Anto. I. Lonappan , Sumit Kumar , Ruchika , Bikash R. Dinda , Anjan A Sen

We explore the theoretical viability of modeling a decaying dark matter sector through a unified scalar field approach. Using exact analytical solutions of the Friedmann constraints, we map the fluid phenomenology onto a scalar field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Gilberto Aguilar-Pérez , Deryan Alvarado , Miguel Cruz , Estefany Ruíz-Ramos , Joel Saavedra

Dark energy is believed to be responsible for the acceleration of the universe. In this paper, we reconstruct the dark energy scalar field potential $V(\phi)$ using the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ through Gaussian Process analysis. Our goal is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Jing Niu , Kang Jiao , Peng He , Tong-Jie Zhang

We consider a model where both dark energy and dark matter originate from the coupling of a scalar field with a non-conventional kinetic term to, both, a metric measure and a non-metric measure. An interacting dark energy/dark matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Stefano Ansoldi , Eduardo I. Guendelman

The main aim of this paper is to perform a model comparison for some reconstructions of the key properties that describe the dark energy of the Universe i.e. energy density and the equation of state (EoS). We carry out this process by using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-28 Luis A. Escamilla , J. Alberto Vazquez

The two most popular candidates for dark energy, i.e. a cosmological constant and quintessence, are very difficult to distinguish observationally, mostly because the quintessence field does not have sizable fluctuations. We study a scalar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Massimo Pietroni

We present a nonparametric approach to reconstruct the interaction between dark energy and dark matter directly from SNIa Union 2.1 data using Gaussian processes, which is a fully Bayesian approach for smoothing data. In this method, once…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 Tao Yang , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai