A dynamical systems approach to geodesics in Bianchi cosmologies (Q5931043)

The authors augment the Einstein field equations with the geodesic equations, all written in dimensionless form, obtaining an extended system of first-order ordinary differential equations that simultaneously describes the evolution of the gravitational field and the behavior of the associated geodesics. Studying the hull geodesics they obtain that the extended model is a powerful tool for investigating the effect of spacetime anisotropies on the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The model is used too for studying geodesic chaos.