Dynamics of interacting quintessence

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate coupled quintessence with scaling potential assuming specific forms of the coupling as $A$ namely, $α\dot{ρ_m}$, $β\dot{ρ_ϕ}$ and $σ(\dot{ρ_m}+\dot{ρ_ϕ})$, and present phase space analysis for three different interacting models. We focus on the attractor solutions that can give rise to late time acceleration with $Ω_{DE}/Ω_{DM}$ of order unity in order to alleviate the coincidence problem.

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