Interacting dark energy model in the brane scenario: A dynamical system analysis

Abstract

The present work is a second in the series of investigations of the background dynamics in brane cosmology when dark energy is coupled to dark matter by a suitable interaction. Here, dark matter is chosen in the form of perfect fluid with barotropic equation of state, while a real scalar field with self-interacting potential is chosen as dark energy. The scalar field potential is chosen as exponential or hyperbolic in nature and three different choices for the interactions between the dark species are considered. In the background of spatially flat, homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann–Robertson–Walker (FRW) brane model, the evolution equations are reduced to an autonomous system by suitable transformation of variables and a series of critical points are obtained for different interactions. By analyzing the critical points, we have found a cosmologically viable model describing an early inflationary scenario to dark energy-dominated era connecting through a matter-dominated phase.