A dynamical systems approach to geodesics in Bianchi cosmologies

DOI10.1023/A:1001938200689MaRDI QIDQ6208768zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ulf Nilsson, Claes Uggla, John Wainwright

Publication date 11 February 2001

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9908062

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologydynamical systemsgeneral relativityhomogeneous Bianchi models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: To understand the observational properties of cosmological models, in particular, the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation, it is necessary to study their null geodesics. Dynamical systems theory, in conjunction with the orthonormal frame approach, has proved to be an invaluable tool for analyzing spatially homogeneous cosmologies. It is thus natural to use such techniques to study the geodesics of these models. We therefore augment the Einstein field equations with the geodesic equations, all written in dimensionless form, obtaining an extended system of first-order ordinary differential equations that simultaneously describes the evolution of the gravitational field and the behavior of the associated geodesics. It is shown that the extended system is a powerful tool for investigating the effect of spacetime anisotropies on the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and that it can also be used for studying geodesic chaos.

Review text

In this article, the dynamical systems approach to the field equations for the spatially homogeneous Bianchi models is extended to the geodesic equations for these cosmologies. The field equations are written as an autonomous system of first order differential equations. By normalizing with the expansion scalar, dimensionless variables are obtained. From the found system one can obtain qualitative information on the evolution of the Bianchi cosmologies. The equilibrium points of the system correspond to selfsimilar models which are studied in more detail. The geodesic equations for the tangent vector of the cosmic fluid form a first order coupled system where the gravitational potentials enter. The tangent vector is normalized by the energy which leads to bounded variables for null and timelike geodesics. The study of null geodesics can lead to information on the observational properties as limits on the anisotropy of the cosmic expansion by the isotropy of the cosmic microwave background. Examples for simple fluids and selfsimilar models are discussed in detail.

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