Holographic dark energy and cosmic coincidence

Diego Pavon; Winfried Zimdahl

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Holographic dark energy and cosmic coincidence

Diego Pavon, Winfried Zimdahl

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Submitted 4 May 2005 · 24 references

Pith's verdict: A correct and useful algebraic correction to Li's no-go for the Hubble-cutoff holographic model, wrapped in a coincidence-problem claim the derivation does not actually earn.

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CitationDiego Pavon, Winfried Zimdahl. "Holographic dark energy and cosmic coincidence." arXiv:gr-qc/0505020 (2005). https://pith.science/paper/3SGMMHS7

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The thing to know up front: the algebra is right and the correction to Li (2004) is real, but the abstract's 'thus solving the coincidence problem' is doing more work than the equations do. The stress-test note lands, and so does your reading of it. The paper is more defensible than its own abstract, not less, once you see what the interaction is actually for. What is genuinely new. Li discarded L = H^{-1} because rho_M ~ H^2 together with rho_M ~ a^{-3} forces w = 0. Pavon and Zimdahl point out that the second step assumes independent evolution. Drop that assumption, allow Q = Gamma rho_X, and the saturated ansatz rho_X = 3 c^2 M_P^2 H^2 is consistent with a non-dust w, with w = -(1 + 1/r) Gamma/(3H). The acceleration condition nu > r_0/3 is clean, and the paper is honest that there is no non-interacting limit: with Gamma = 0 you get w = 0 and no acceleration. That structural point, that the Hubble-cutoff model only works if the dark components talk to each other, is the paper's real content and it belongs in the literature. Where it is soft. The constancy of r does not come from the interaction. Combine the ansatz with flat Friedmann and you get rho_M = 3(1 - c^2) M_P^2 H^2 immediately; the paper derives this itself as Eq. (1), before Q appears anywhere. So r = (1 - c^2)/c^2 is O(1) because c^2 is a free O(1) parameter. The coincidence is relocated, not explained. The abstract and the sentence 'the interaction is essential to simultaneously solve the coincidence problem and have late acceleration' both overstate this; the interaction is essential for acceleration, not for the constant ratio. The paper is transparent elsewhere ('irrespective of the specific structure of the interaction'), so I read this as framing rather than error. The c^2(t) half is thinner than it looks. Eq. (12), c^2(1 + r) = 1, is a tautology once c^2 is allowed to vary: r(t) is exactly as free as c^2(t). 'Compatible with a transition' is close to vacuous until someone specifies c^2(t) or Gamma. The authors concede this in one line. Fine as a remark, not as a result. Who should read it: anyone working on interacting or holographic dark energy, and anyone who cites Li's no-go for the Hubble cutoff. It is a four-page model-building Letter, not a data paper; no fits, no likelihoods, none claimed. Recommendation: publishable, with the abstract's coincidence claim softened. Worth a referee's hour, not more.

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[Abstract [abstract:s0] and the sentence 'the interaction is essential to simultaneously solve the coincidence problem'] The abstract's causal framing is inverted relative to the derivation. Combining ρ_X = 3c²M_P²H² with the flat Friedmann equation gives ρ_M = 3(1−c²)M_P²H² identically, hence r = (1−c²)/c² with no reference to Q; the paper itself derives Eq. (1) this way in the paragraph following it. The interaction enters only through the balance equations, where it fixes w via Eq. (7); substituting (7) into (5) then returns ṙ = 0 as a consistency check, not as a dynamical consequence of the coupling. The sentence 'any interaction ... implies a constant ratio ... thus solving the coincidence problem' should be reworded to say that the saturated Hubble-cutoff ansatz plus Friedmann fixes r, that the interaction is what permits w < 0 and hence acceleration, and that the coincidence is 'solved' in the weaker sense that r is constant and O(1) when c² is O(1), not predicted. The same correction is needed for the sentence 'the interaction is essential to simultaneously solve the coincidence problem and have late acceleration,' where only the acceleration half requires the coupling.
[Eq. (9) and the paragraph invoking the dominant energy condition] The paper states the acceleration condition ν > r₀/3 but never writes the upper bound implied by the dominant energy condition it invokes two paragraphs later. With w = −(1+1/r₀)ν, the condition w ≥ −1 gives ν ≤ r₀/(1+r₀). The two conditions are simultaneously satisfiable only for r₀ < 2, i.e. c² > 1/3. The text says 'This automatically sets a constraint on Γ and c²' but does not state it; the explicit window r₀/3 < ν ≤ r₀/(1+r₀) and the resulting bound on c² should be written out, since they qualify the central claim that the model can simultaneously accelerate and satisfy the energy conditions.

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[Eq. (9)] The expression 'm = 1 + w/(1+r₀) = 1 − ν/r' uses r without a subscript in the last term; it should be r₀, since r is constant in this paragraph.
[Reference [4]] The entry 'P. Hořava and D. Minic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1610 (2000). 509, 138 (2001).' contains an orphaned '509, 138 (2001)' that appears to be a stray fragment; please check and correct.
[Reference [21]] The author name is rendered 'M. Szyd/suppress llowski', a LaTeX artifact; it should read Szydłowski.
[Paragraph following Eq. (13)] The statement that c² < 1 'does not prompt any conflict with thermodynamics' is asserted without argument or citation. Either sketch the thermodynamic argument or cite where it is made.
[Paragraph before the c²(t) discussion] The 'degree of saturation' interpretation is essentially definitional: c²(t) is defined by ρ_X = 3c²(t)M_P²H², so saying the cutoff is unchanged while the saturation varies carries no independent physical content beyond r(t). The language should be sharpened to make clear that this is a reinterpretation of the same equation.
[General] The scaling solution has ρ_M ∝ a^{−3m} with m = 1 − ν/r₀ < 1, so there is no standard matter-dominated era with a⁻³ scaling; the implications for structure formation and CMB constraints are not discussed. A sentence acknowledging this limitation would be appropriate for a Letter.
[Eq. (1) and the Friedmann equation] The constant-r result relies on spatial flatness, which is stated in the Friedmann equation but not in the abstract; the abstract should make the flatness assumption explicit.

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The paper claims

If dark energy's density is set by the Hubble scale and it exchanges energy with dark matter, the two densities are forced into a fixed ratio — which is exactly what the cosmic coincidence problem asks for.

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The paper reopens a choice that had been discarded: using the Hubble radius as the infrared cutoff in holographic dark energy. The earlier objection was that a saturated bound $ρ_X = 3c^2M_P^2H^2$ makes dark energy behave like pressureless dust, so it cannot drive acceleration; the authors observe that this reasoning assumes dark matter and dark energy evolve independently. Allow an interaction between them and the same density law forces the ratio $r = ρ_M/ρ_X$ to be exactly constant, which is precisely what the coincidence problem demands, while the equation of state becomes a function of the interaction strength. The second half relaxes exact saturation, letting the coefficient $c^2$ drift in time; then $r$ can evolve, and the drift pushes $w$ toward more negative values, which is what a transition from decelerated to accelerated expansion requires.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the identification of the dark energy density with the saturated holographic bound at the Hubble cutoff, $ρ_X = 3c^2M_P^2H^2$. Combined with the flat Friedmann equation $3M_P^2H^2 = ρ_X + ρ_M$, it gives $ρ_M = 3(1-c^2)M_P^2H^2$ directly, so both densities hang on the same $H^2$ and their ratio is fixed by the coefficient alone. That identity is what converts an interaction from an optional extra into a mechanism: it supplies the negative equation of state that the density law by itself cannot, and it makes the constancy of $r$ a consequence of the ansatz rather than of any particular coupling shape. The generalisation $c^2 = c^2(t)$ then turns the same identity into a lever, since $c^2(1+r) = 1$ ties the saturation level to the density ratio.

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The authors show that with $ρ_X = 3c^2M_P^2H^2$ at constant $c^2$, any coupling $Q = Γρ_X$ to pressureless dark matter yields $r = (1-c^2)/c^2$ as a strict constant, and an equation of state $w = -(1+1/r)Γ/(3H)$ set entirely by the interaction strength. In the non-interacting limit $Γ = 0$ one recovers $w = 0$, the dust behaviour that made the Hubble cutoff look unworkable, so the coupling is not a decoration: it is the only thing standing between this cutoff and acceleration. Acceleration requires $Γ/(3H) > r/3$, and with a constant $Γ/(3H) = ν$ the densities scale as $a^{-3m}$ with $m = 1 - ν/r$. When $c^2$ is allowed to vary, the authors derive $c^2(1+r) = 1$ as a necessary relation, so the drift of $c^2$ and the drift of $r$ fix each other, and $w = -(1+1/r)[Γ/(3H) + (c^2)^{·}/(3Hc^2)]$ becomes more negative as $r$ falls. They argue that a growing $c^2$ need not mean a moving cutoff, only a bound that is progressively saturated.

Load-bearing premise

The argument rests on assuming the holographic bound is exactly saturated at the Hubble cutoff with a constant coefficient, $ρ_X = 3c^2M_P^2H^2$; the authors themselves call saturation 'not at all compelling', and since $c^2$ is a free parameter, the value of the density ratio is assumed rather than derived.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

The Hubble-radius cutoff, previously excluded on the grounds that it reproduces dust, becomes viable for late acceleration provided dark energy decays into dark matter at a rate exceeding $r/3$ times the Hubble rate.
The coincidence problem is not merely alleviated but dissolved in the constant-$c^2$ branch: the ratio of the two densities is a fixed number at all times, with no epoch singled out.
The dark energy equation of state is not a free function but a ratio of the interaction rate to the Hubble rate, so measuring $w$ amounts to measuring the coupling.
A time-varying saturation coefficient produces a monotonically increasing $c^2$ and a falling $r$, giving a natural route from decelerated to accelerated expansion without invoking a future event horizon.
Because baryons are left uncoupled, the model predicts that the dark matter and baryon densities do not track one another, which distinguishes it from models where all matter couples equally.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The 'solution' of the coincidence problem in the constant-$c^2$ branch is close to a restatement of the ansatz: both densities are pinned to $H^2$, so their ratio could hardly do anything but stay fixed. Whether that counts as an explanation or as a reformulation is the interesting question the paper leaves open.
If $c^2$ climbs toward $1/(1+r_0)$, the universe approaches full saturation from below, which would show up as a mild redshift drift in $w$. That is a target for stage-IV dark energy surveys rather than for current data.
Running the same argument with the future event horizon as cutoff would replace the strictly constant ratio with a relation between $r$ and the horizon's growth rate; putting both cutoffs against the same expansion history would test whether the coincidence is addressed by the coupling or by the choice of cutoff.
The deliberate exclusion of baryons from the coupling gives a signature in structure growth rather than in the background expansion, since the total matter density would then depart from simple $a^{-3}$ scaling.

Original abstract

In this Letter we demonstrate that any interaction of pressureless dark matter with holographic dark energy, whose infrared cutoff is set by the Hubble scale, implies a constant ratio of the energy densities of both components thus solving the coincidence problem. The equation of state parameter is obtained as a function of the interaction strength. For a variable degree of saturation of the holographic bound the energy density ratio becomes time dependent which is compatible with a transition from decelerated to accelerated expansion.

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astro-ph.CO 2013-09 conditional novelty 2.0 of 10

Interacting dark sector models span a wide space of couplings, and several of them produce expansion histories, deceleration behaviour, and transient acceleration that differ qualitatively from the standard cosmologic...
Dark energy cosmology: the equivalent description via different theoretical models and cosmography tests
gr-qc 2012-05 conditional novelty 2.0 of 10

The paper reviews how many dark energy and modified-gravity models can be recast as equivalent fluid or scalar-field descriptions and can be tuned to fit current cosmological data.

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In Ref. [ref] , a naive model of such an interaction scenario between dark energy and dark matter in ([ref]) realizing a similar result with a constant $w_eff$ has been proposed, although in the present case of $H$ in Eq. ([ref]) we have a dynamical $w_eff$.

Dark energy cosmology: the equivalent description via different theoretical models and cosmography tests · Generalized holographic dark energy · 0.95

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The coincidences problem can also be solved within the framework of holographic cosmology [ref] .

Holographic Dynamics as Way to Solve the Basic Cosmological Problems · Cosmological constant: holographic view · 0.98
We shall assume that $Q$ has the following form, [equation] which has many phenomenological supports [ref] .

Finite-time Cosmological Singularities and the Possible Fate of the Universe · Finite-time Cosmological and Dynamical Systems Singularities in Interacting Multifluids Cosmology · 0.96
Interestingly, it has been found that the HDE cosmological pattern provides the current cosmic acceleration and it is in agreement with the observational data [ref] .

Growth of matter perturbations in clustered holographic dark energy cosmologies · Introduction · 0.98

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An example of such effort is the HDE models [ref] .

Holographic dark energy with the sign-changeable interaction term · Introduction · 0.85
Many DDE models are designed to solve the coincidence problem by having $ρ_de(t) ∼ρ_m(t)$ for a large fraction of the history/future of the universe [ref] .

Dark-Energy Dynamics Required to Solve the Cosmic Coincidence · Introduction · 0.83
Regardless, cosmological models exist in this class and Holographic Dark Energy (HDE) [ref] can be regarded as a prominent minimal model (see also [ref] for generalisations).

A Critique of Holographic Dark Energy · Introduction · 0.97

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