Dynamical systems approach to G 2 cosmology

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DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/1/304zbMATH Open1008.83034arXivgr-qc/0107041OpenAlexW3123761223MaRDI QIDQ4329699FDOQ4329699


Authors: Henk van Elst, Claes Uggla, John Wainwright Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 15 October 2002

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

Abstract: In this paper we present a new approach for studying the dynamics of spatially inhomogeneous cosmological models with one spatial degree of freedom. By introducing suitable scale-invariant dependent variables we write the evolution equations of the Einstein field equations as a system of autonomous partial differential equations in first-order symmetric hyperbolic format, whose explicit form depends on the choice of gauge. As a first application, we show that the asymptotic behaviour near the cosmological initial singularity can be given a simple geometrical description in terms of the local past attractor on the boundary of the scale-invariant dynamical state space. The analysis suggests the name ``asymptotic silence to describe the evolution of the gravitational field near the cosmological initial singularity.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0107041




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