Dynamics of nonlinear interacting dark energy models
We investigate the cosmological dynamics of interacting dark energy models in which the interaction function is nonlinear in terms of the energy densities. Considering explicitly the interaction between a pressureless dark matter and a scalar field, minimally coupled to Einstein gravity, we explore the dynamics of the spatially flat FLRW universe for the exponential potential of the scalar field. We perform the stability analysis for three nonlinear interaction models of our consideration through the analysis of critical points and we investigate the cosmological parameters and discuss the physical behavior at the critical points. From the analysis of the critical points we find a number of possibilities that include the stable late-time accelerated solution, [Formula: see text]CDM-like solution, radiation-like solution and moreover the unstable inflationary solution.