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The Parameterized Post-Friedmannian Framework for Interacting Dark Energy Theories

arXiv:1502.07297 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.91.083537

Abstract

We present the most general parametrisation of models of dark energy in the form of a scalar field which is explicitly coupled to dark matter. We follow and extend the Parameterized Post-Friedmannian approach, previously applied to modified gravity theories, in order to include interacting dark energy. We demonstrate its use through a number of worked examples and show how the initially large parameter space of free functions can be significantly reduced and constrained to include only a few non-zero coefficients. This paves the way for a model-independent approach to classify and test interacting dark energy theories.

11 pages, 2 tables; version accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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