Time asymmetry and chaos in general relativity

DOI10.1023/B:GERG.0000038473.76575.B0zbMATH Open1062.83093arXivgr-qc/0402054OpenAlexW3104824482MaRDI QIDQ701985FDOQ701985

Yves Gaspar

Publication date: 17 January 2005

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

Abstract: In this work the late-time evolution of Bianchi type $VIII$ models is discussed. These cosmological models exhibit a chaotic behaviour towards the initial singularity and our investigations show that towards the future, far from the initial singularity, these models have a non-chaotic evolution, even in the case of vacuum and without inflation. These space-time solutions turn out to exhibit a particular time asymmetry. On the other hand, investigations of the late-time behaviour of type $VIII$ models by another author have the result that chaos continues for ever in the far future and that these solutions have a time symmetric behaviour: this result was obtained using the approximation methods of Belinski, Khalatnikov and Lifshitz ($BKL$) and we try to find out a possible reason explaining why the different approaches lead to distinct outcomes. It will be shown that, at a heuristic level, the $BKL$ method gives a valid approximation of the late-time evolution of type $VIII$ models, agreeing with the result of our investigations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0402054

zbMATH Keywords

chaotic dynamicsmixmaster universe modelBianchi type VIII

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20)

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