Late-time cosmological constraints on three holographic dark energy models with DESI DR2 BAO and Type Ia supernovae

Abstract

We constrain three holographic-inspired dark energy models, namely holographic dark energy (HDE), agegraphic dark energy (ADE), and Ricci dark energy (RDE), using late-time observations from cosmic chronometers, Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), DESI DR2 baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), and {redshift-space distortion (RSD) growth measurements}. Five data combinations are considered: $H(z)+$Pantheon+, $H(z)+$DESI DR2+Pantheon+, $H(z)+$DESI DR2+DES-Dovekie, $H(z)+$DESI DR2+DESY5, and {$H(z)+$DESI DR2+DES-Dovekie+RSD}. We perform Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo parameter estimation and compare the models with AIC and BIC. In the BAO-included combinations, HDE gives $H_0\simeq67.3$--$68.0~\mathrm{~km~s^{-1}~Mpc^{-1}}$, $Ω_{m0}\simeq0.270$--$0.272$, and $c\simeq1$, indicating an expansion history close to the de Sitter boundary rather than a robust phantom regime. ADE yields a stable agegraphic parameter $n\simeq2.78$--$2.81$, while RDE gives $γ\simeq0.53$--$0.55$ and persistently favors a low matter density, $Ω_{m0}\simeq0.215$--$0.219$. {Treating $r_d$ as a free parameter reveals a strong negative correlation between $H_0$ and $r_d$, and the RSD-included combination provides a growth-level consistency check through $fσ_8(z)$ without constituting a full perturbative stability analysis.} None of the three models significantly alleviates the Hubble tension. Overall, HDE shows the most balanced phenomenological behavior among the three models, although current late-time data do not decisively prefer it over $Λ\text{CDM}$.