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We investigate the observational viability of a class of interacting dark energy (iDE) models in the light of the latest Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), type Ia supernovae (SNe) and SH0ES Hubble parameter measurements. Our analysis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 Micol Benetti , Humberto Borges , Cassio Pigozzo , Saulo Carneiro , Jailson Alcaniz

The interacting dark energy (IDE) model, which considers the interaction between dark energy and dark matter, provides a natural mechanism to alleviate the coincidence problem and can also relieve the observational tensions under the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Yun Liu , Shihong Liao , Xiangkun Liu , Jiajun Zhang , Rui An , Zuhui Fan

In this paper, we test the dark matter-dark energy interacting cosmological model with a dynamic equation of state $w_{DE}(z)=w_{0}+w_{1}z/(1+z)$, using type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), Hubble parameter data, baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO)…

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Relaxing the conventional assumption of a minimal coupling between the dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) fields introduces significant changes in the predicted evolution of the Universe. Therefore, testing such a possibility constitutes…

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Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) observations, when combined with Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Type Ia supernovae (SNe), have led to statistically significant dynamical dark energy (DDE) claims. In this letter we…

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We consider the impact of dynamical dark energy (DDE) in the possible solution of the existing tensions in the $\Lambda$CDM. We test both interacting and non-interacting DE models with dark matter (DM). Among the former, the running vacuum…

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While $\Lambda$CDM provides a good fit to cosmological data, it fails to address many of the outstanding questions in contemporary cosmology. Chief among these are the Hubble tension and the apparent dynamical nature of dark energy as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Amin Aboubrahim , Pran Nath

In the context of a spatially flat $\Lambda(t)$CDM cosmology, we investigate interacting dark energy (IDE) scenarios characterized by phenomenological interaction terms proportional to the Hubble expansion rate and the dark energy density.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 A. A. Escobal , H. A. P. Macedo , J. F. Jesus , R. C. Nunes , J. A. S. Lima

In order to test if there is energy transfer between dark energy and dark matter, we investigate cosmological constraints on two forms of nontrivial interaction between the dark matter sector and the sector responsible for the acceleration…

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In recent years, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations, Weak Lensing surveys, and $f\sigma_8(z)$ measurements from Redshift-Space Distortions (RSD) have revealed a significant ($\sim$3$-$5$\sigma$) discrepancy in the inferred value…

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The current observational tensions in the standard cosmological model have reinforced the research on dynamical dark energy, in particular on models with non-gravitational interaction between the dark components. Analyses of late-time…

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We present new mechanisms that produce either a future Big Crunch turnaround or a past non-singular bounce in flat FLRW cosmologies within general relativity at the background level, driven solely by non-gravitational interactions between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Marcel van der Westhuizen , Amare Abebe

Cosmological models where dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) interact with each other are the general scenarios in compared to the non-interacting models. The interaction is usually motivated from the phenomenological ground and thus…

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Models proposing a non-gravitational interaction between dark energy (DE) and dark matter (CDM) have been extensively studied as alternatives to the standard cosmological model. A common approach to describing the DE-CDM coupling assumes it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Jaelsson S. Lima , Rodrigo von Marttens , Luciano Casarini

The standard $\Lambda$CDM model, despite its success, is challenged by persistent observational tensions in the Hubble constant ($H_0$) and the matter clustering amplitude ($S_8$), motivating the exploration of alternative cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-02 Vitor Petri , Valerio Marra , Rodrigo von Marttens

In standard cosmologies, dark energy interacts only gravitationally with dark matter. There could be a non-gravitational interaction in the dark sector, leading to changes in the effective DE equation of state, in the redshift dependence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-13 Timothy Clemson , Kazuya Koyama , Gong-Bo Zhao , Roy Maartens , Jussi Väliviita

Analyses by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration suggest a significant deviation from the $\Lambda$CDM model when their baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements are combined with Planck cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Da-Chun Qiang , Jing-Yi Jia , Hao Wei

Baryon acoustic oscillation measurements by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (Data Release 1) have revealed exciting results that show evidence for dynamical dark energy at $\sim3\sigma$ when combined with cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Bikash R. Dinda , Roy Maartens

We consider a non-linear interaction between the dark matter and dark energy components of the universe. In particular, within the FLRW geometry, where dark matter is described by a dust fluid and dark energy by an ideal gas with a constant…

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