Electrocardiogram of the Mixmaster universe

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/26/2/025012zbMATH Open1158.83323arXiv0808.0828OpenAlexW1993121848WikidataQ56518372 ScholiaQ56518372MaRDI QIDQ3603186FDOQ3603186

Authors: Donato Bini, Christian Cherubini, Andrea Geralico, Robert T. Jantzen 

Publication date: 16 February 2009

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Mixmaster dynamics is revisited in a new light as revealing a series of transitions in the complex scale invariant scalar invariant of the Weyl curvature tensor best represented by the speciality index $mathcalS$, which gives a 4-dimensional measure of the evolution of the spacetime independent of all the 3-dimensional gauge-dependent variables except for the time used to parametrize it. Its graph versus time characterized by correlated isolated pulses in its real and imaginary parts corresponding to curvature wall collisions serves as a sort of electrocardiogram of the Mixmaster universe, with each such pulse pair arising from a single circuit or ``complex pulse around the origin in the complex plane. These pulses in the speciality index and their limiting points on the real axis seem to invariantly characterize some of the so called spike solutions in inhomogeneous cosmology and should play an important role as a gauge invariant lens through which to view current investigations of inhomogeneous Mixmaster dynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0828

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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