Asymptotic self-similarity breaking at late times in cosmology

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DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/8/302zbMATH Open0946.83067arXivgr-qc/9812010OpenAlexW2091493117WikidataQ56608246 ScholiaQ56608246MaRDI QIDQ4701098FDOQ4701098


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Publication date: 21 November 1999

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

Abstract: We study the late time evolution of a class of exact anisotropic cosmological solutions of Einstein's equations, namely spatially homogeneous cosmologies of Bianchi type VII0 with a perfect fluid source. We show that, in contrast to models of Bianchi type VIIh which are asymptotically self-similar at late times, Bianchi VII0 models undergo a complicated type of self-similarity breaking. This symmetry breaking affects the late time isotropization that occurs in these models in a significant way: if the equation of state parameter gamma satisfies gammaleq4/3 the models isotropize as regards the shear but not as regards the Weyl curvature. Indeed these models exhibit a new dynamical feature that we refer to as Weyl curvature dominance: the Weyl curvature dominates the dynamics at late times. By viewing the evolution from a dynamical systems perspective we show that, despite the special nature of the class of models under consideration, this behaviour has implications for more general models.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9812010




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