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An interaction between the vacuum energy and dark matter is an intriguing possibility which may offer a way of solving the cosmological constant problem. Adopting a general prescription for momentum exchange between the two dark components,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Yuting Wang , Gong-Bo Zhao , David Wands , Levon Pogosian , Robert G. Crittenden

We consider three cosmological models with linear interaction between the dark components and obtain restrictions on the coupling constant in terms of the cosmographic parameters. It enables us to find constraints on the coupling constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Yu. L. Bolotin , V. A. Cherkaskiy , O. A. Lemets

We investigate non-gravitational signals of dark energy within the framework of gauge symmetry in the dark energy sector. Traditionally, dark energy has been primarily studied through gravitational effects within general relativity or its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-15 Kunio Kaneta , Hye-Sung Lee , Jiheon Lee , Jaeok Yi

We revise the cosmological interaction between dark energy and dark matter. More precisely, we focus on models that support compartmentalization or co-existence in the dark sector of the universe. Within the framework of a homogeneous and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-25 Andronikos Paliathanasis , Kevin Duffy , Amlan Halder , Amare Abebe

Dark energy interacting with dark matter is a promising model to solve the cosmic coincidence problem. We study the signature of such interaction on large scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies. Based on the detail…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Jian-Hua He , Bin Wang , Pengjie Zhang

The paper deals with a theoretical model for interacting dark energy. The interaction between the cold dark matter (dust) and the dark energy has been assumed to be non-gravitational in nature. Exact analytic cosmological solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-31 Supriya Pan , Subhra Bhattacharya , Subenoy Chakraborty

The $\Lambda$CDM model faces significant challenges, including an incomplete understanding of the dark sector and persistent tensions in the Hubble constant and the clustering amplitude. To address these issues, we propose a general…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Pulkit Bansal , Joseph P. Johnson , S. Shankaranarayanan

In this paper, we introduce a new interacting mechanism within the dark sector, encompassing both dark energy and dark matter, while grounding our analysis in the familiar framework of the $\mathrm{\Lambda CDM}$ model augmented by baryons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-13 Martín G. Richarte , Luiz F. Guimarães , Susana J. Landau , Júlio C. Fabris

We study cosmological dynamics of an extended gravitational theory that gravity is coupled non-minimally with derivatives of a dark energy component and there is also a phenomenological interaction between the dark energy and dark matter.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-20 Kourosh Nozari , Noushin Behrouz

Models in which dark energy interacts with dark matter have been proposed in the literature to help explain why dark energy should only come to dominate in recent times. In this paper, we present a dynamical framework to calculate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-12 Sirichai Chongchitnan

We reexamine interactions between the dark sectors of cosmology, with a focus on robust constraints that can be obtained using only mildly nonlinear scales. While it is well known that couplings between dark matter and dark energy can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-18 V Miranda , Mariana Carrillo González , Elisabeth Krause , Mark Trodden

The description of dark matter as a pressure-less fluid and of dark energy as a cosmological constant, both minimally coupled to gravity, constitutes the basis of the concordance $\Lambda\text{CDM}$ model. However, the concordance model is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-27 Amin Aboubrahim , Pran Nath

It is possible that there exist some interactions between dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM), and a suitable interaction can alleviate the coincidence problem. Several phenomenological interacting forms are proposed and are fitted with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 Rong-Gen Cai , Qiping Su

Interacting dark energy models may play a crucial role in explaining several important observational issues in modern cosmology and also may provide a solution to current cosmological tensions. Since the phenomenology of the dark sector…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , Olga Mena , Eleonora Di Valentino

In Cosmology, when dissipative effects are minimal, the energy content of the Universe can be effectively described as a sum of perfect fluids. Perfect fluid descriptions ensure thermal equilibrium since they equilibrate immediately.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-16 Pulkit Bansal , Joseph P Johnson , S. Shankaranarayanan

We study observational signatures of non-gravitational interactions between the dark components of the cosmic fluid, which can be either due to creation of dark particles from the expanding vacuum or an effect of the clustering of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-10 Micol Benetti , Welber Miranda , Humberto A. Borges , Cassio Pigozzo , Saulo Carneiro , Jailson S. Alcaniz

We present a unifying treatment of dark energy and modified gravity that allows distinct conformal-disformal couplings of matter species to the gravitational sector. In this very general approach, we derive the conditions to avoid ghost and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Jérôme Gleyzes , David Langlois , Michele Mancarella , Filippo Vernizzi

Interacting dark energy-dark matter models have been widely analyzed in the literature in an attempt to find traces of new physics beyond the usual cosmological ($\Lambda$CDM) models. Such a coupling between both dark components is usually…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Diego Álvarez-Ortega , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-García , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

In interacting dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM) scenarios, the interaction function typically includes a coupling parameter $\xi$ that quantifies the strength of energy exchange between the dark sectors. While $\xi$ is often assumed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Weiqiang Yang , Sibo Zhang , Olga Mena , Supriya Pan , Eleonora Di Valentino

An interaction between dark matter and dark energy, proportional to the product of their energy densities, results in a scaling behavior of the ratio of these densities with respect to the scale factor of the Robertson-Walker metric. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 R. F. vom Marttens , L. Casarini , W. S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , W. Zimdahl