Symbolic dynamics, modular curves, and Bianchi IX cosmologies

DOI10.5802/AFST.1503zbMATH Open1380.37071arXiv1504.04005OpenAlexW2963048437MaRDI QIDQ341052FDOQ341052

Authors: Matilde Marcolli, Yuri I. Manin 

Publication date: 15 November 2016

Published in: Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Série VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well known that the so called Bianchi IX spacetimes with SO(3)-symmetry in a neighbourhood of the Big Bang exhibit a chaotic behaviour of typical trajectories in the backward movement of time. This behaviour (Mixmaster Model of the Universe) can be encoded by the shift of two-sided continued fractions. Exactly the same shift encodes the sequences of intersections of hyperbolic geodesics with purely imaginary axis in the upper complex half-plane, that is geodesic flow on an appropriate modular surface. A physical interpretation of this coincidence was suggested in arXiv:1402.2158: namely, that Mixmaster chaos is an approximate description of the passage from a hot quantum Universe at the Big Bang moment to the cooling classical Universe. Here we discuss and elaborate this suggestion, looking at the Mixmaster Model from the perspective of the second class of Bianchi IX spacetimes: those with SU(2)-symmetry (self-dual Einstein metrics). We also extend it to the more general context related to Painleve' VI equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04005

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zbMATH Keywords

Bianchi IX spacetimemixmaster model of the universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Theta functions and curves; Schottky problem (14H42) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05)

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