Dynamical stability of an interacting quintessence with varying-mass dark matter particles in Lyra manifold

TL;DR

This paper investigates the stability and evolution of an interacting dark energy model within Lyra's geometry, revealing conditions for late-time acceleration and solutions to the coincidence problem through dynamical systems analysis.

Contribution

It introduces a novel interacting dark energy model with varying-mass dark matter particles in Lyra geometry and analyzes its stability and cosmological implications.

Findings

Identification of late-time scalar field dominated attractors.

Existence of scaling solutions with comparable dark energy and dark matter densities.

Conditions for accelerated expansion and solutions to the coincidence problem.

Abstract

In the background dynamics of a spatially flat FLRW model of the universe, we investigate an interacting dark energy model in the context of Lyra's geometry. Pressure-less dust is considered as dark matter, mass of which varies with time via scalar field in the sense that decaying of dark matter particles reproduces the scalar field. Here, quintessence scalar field is adopted as dark energy candidate which evolves in exponential potential. Mass of the dark matter particles is also considered to be evolved in exponential function of the scalar field. Cosmological evolution equations are studied in the framework of dynamical systems analysis. Dimension-less variables are chosen properly so that the cosmological evolution equations are converted into an autonomous system of ordinary differential equations. Linear stability is performed to find the nature of critical points by perturbing the system around the critical points in the phase space. Classical stability is also executed by finding out the speed of sound. Dynamical systems explore several viable results which are physically interested in some parameter regions. Late-time scalar field dominated attractors are found by critical points, corresponding to the accelerating universe. Scalar field-displacement vector field scaling solutions are realized that represent late time decelerated universe. Dark energy -dark matter scaling solutions are also exhibited by critical points which correspond to accelerated attractors possessing similar order of energy densities of dark energy and dark matter, that provides the possible solutions of coincidence problem.