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1. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Crunching, bouncing, and cyclical cosmologies from dark sector interactions

   van der Westhuizen and Abebe · Classical and Quantum Gravity · 2026

   The paper shows that strong dark matter–dark energy interactions in flat relativistic cosmologies can produce a future big crunch or a past non-singular bounce, and a cyclic case in a closed universe.

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   1. Unchecked“In this strong interacting regime, the interaction does not vanish when one component crosses zero density, allowing one of the dark-sector densities to become negative.”
   2. UncheckedIn strongly interacting dark matter–dark energy models, density sign changes can break the energy conditions and allow a big crunch or a bounce in a flat universe.“The resulting sign changes can violate the energy conditions required for cosmological turnarounds in a flat universe, thereby enabling either (i) a maximum scale factor followed by recollapse into a big crunch, or (ii) a minimum non-zero scale factor corresponding to a bounce.”