Bianchi cosmologies: a tale of two tilted fluids

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Abstract: We use a dynamical systems approach to study Bianchi type VI0 cosmological models containing two tilted gamma-law perfect fluids. The full state space is 11-dimensional, but the existence of a monotonic function simplifies the analysis considerably. We restrict attention to a particular, physically interesting, invariant subspace and find all equilibrium points that are future stable in the full 11-dimensional state space; these are consequently local attractors and serve as late-time asymptotes for an open set of tilted type VI0 models containing two tilted fluids. We find that if one of the fluids has an equation of state parameter gamma<6/5, the stiffest fluid will be dynamically insignificant at late times. For the value gamma=6/5 there is a 2-dimensional bifurcation set, and if both fluids are stiffer than gamma=6/5 both fluids will have extreme tilt asymptotically. We investigate the case in which one fluid is extremely tilting in detail. We also consider the case with one stiff fluid (gamma=2) close to the initial singularity, and find that the chaotic behaviour which occurs in general Bianchi models with gamma<2 is suppressed.









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