Fragility in cosmology

DOI10.1007/BF00759090MaRDI QIDQ1200409zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alan Coley, R. Tavakol

Publication date 16 January 1993

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00759090

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologydynamical systemsfragilitystability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structural stability and analogous concepts of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D30) Stability theory for smooth dynamical systems (37C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Review text

This paper provides a thorough review of the problem of the fragility (lack of stability) of cosmological models in general relativity viewed as generalized dynamical systems. The subject is approached from various aspects. One is the standard dynamical question of the stability of the time evolution problem under perturbations of initial conditions. Another is the question of the stability of the problem under changes of assumptions of symmetry, matter models, etc. Yet another set of questions concerns the stability under ``perturbations of the theory in the sense of modifications of the assumed Lagrangian, space-time dimension, etc. The conclusion is that these are in general difficult but important questions for cosmology. The intention of the authors is to provide some groundwork for further investigations.

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