2+1 gravity, chaos and time machines

DOI10.1063/1.1378302zbMath1009.83034arXivgr-qc/0012018WikidataQ62561543 ScholiaQ62561543MaRDI QIDQ2774984

Ingemar Bengtsson, Johan Brännlund

Publication date: 26 February 2002

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0012018

zbMATH Keywords

chaos; Cauchy horizon; time machines; \(2+ 1\) gravity; Bianchi IX models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

37N20: Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics)

83C80: Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions

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