Statefinder parameters for interacting dark energy (Q1878380)

The authors of this paper study the interacting cosmologies. The statefinder parameters introduced by V. Sahni, T. D. Saini, A. A. Starobinsky, U. Alam (2003) (see astro-ph/0201498) are expected to be useful tools in testing interacting cosmologies that solve the coincidence problem which besets many approaches to late acceleration. Evidently, while the deceleration parameter does not feel the interaction between the dark energy and dark matter the statefinder pair \((r,s)\) does. The authors argue that the statefinder parameters that include the third derivative of the cosmic scale factor, are useful tools to characterize interacting quintessence models. The statefinder parameters are specified for two classes of models that solve, or at least alleviate, the coincidence problem.