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Gravity and Cosmology with Interacting Dark Energy

A. S. Silbergleit
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Dark energy (DE) is not necessarily uniform when other sources of gravity are present: interaction with matter leads to its variation in space and time. We study cosmological implications of this fact by analyzing cosmological models in which DE density interacts with matter and thus changes with time. We model the DE--matter interaction by specifying the rate of change of the DE density as an arbitrary function of it and the density of matter, in a single--phase case. In the case of several matter components interacting with dark energy we assume the rate of every interacting phase density to be an arbitrary function of this density and the DE density. We describe some properties of cosmological solutions valid for a general law of DE--matter interaction, and discuss physical admissibility of the interaction laws. We study numerous families of exact solutions, both singular, non-singular, and mixed. Some of them exhibit interesting properties, such as, for instance, absence of the horizon problem due to the initial fast growth of the scale factor (any power of time possible); non-singular evolution from one de Sitter universe (pure DE with no matter) to the other one with a different DE density; DE dominating either from some moment of time on, or throughout the expansion; dark matter dominating normal matter at large times without any parameter tuning, and so on. All the results are obtained strictly within the framework of general relativity, Einstein's theory of gravity, without modifying it in any way.

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A. S. Silbergleit. 2016-02-03. Gravity and Cosmology with Interacting Dark Energy. https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01705

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