Inhomogeneous Dark Fluid and Dark Matter, Leading to a Bounce Cosmology

TL;DR

This paper reviews cosmological models involving inhomogeneous dark fluids coupled with dark matter, exploring bounce cosmology, stability, and viscous effects, with analytic results for various scenarios like Little Rip and Pseudo Rip.

Contribution

It introduces inhomogeneous dark fluid models with coupling to dark matter that can produce bounce cosmologies and analyzes their stability and viscous properties.

Findings

Models can produce bounce cosmology scenarios.

Stability depends on perturbations around critical points.

Analytic expressions characterize Little Rip, Pseudo Rip, and bounce universes.

Abstract

The purpose of this short review is to describe cosmological models with a linear inhomogeneous time-dependent equation of state (EoS) for the dark energy, when the dark fluid is coupled with dark matter. This may lead to a bounce cosmology. We consider equivalent descriptions in terms of the EoS parameters for an exponential, a power-law, or a double-exponential law for the scale factor $a$. Stability issues are discussed by considering small perturbations around the critical points for the bounce, in the early as well as in the late, universe. The latter part of the paper is concerned with dark energy coupled with dark matter in viscous fluid cosmology. We allow the bulk viscosity $\zeta=\zeta(H,t)$ to be a function of the Hubble parameter and the time, and consider the Little Rip, the Pseudo Rip, and the bounce universe. Analytic expressions for characteristic properties of these cosmological models are obtained.