Multi-fluid Theory and Cosmology: A Convective Variational Approach to Interacting Dark-Sector

Abstract

This article examines the foundation of the recently developed relativistic variational formalism[1]. Our work is heavily based on [2, 27] which extends this approach to the multi-fluid theory and examines its utility in astrophysics and cosmology. Unlike the extension to the formalism mentioned above, that looks at the general interaction between different types of matter, we use the formalism to examine the interaction involving, ordinary matter, dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE). We focus on entrainment phenomena involving the dark-sector constituents.

10 pages. This article builds on the foundational work presented by the authors of arXiv:gr-qc/0605010