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Phys. Rev. Lett. 46, 963–966 (1981)

Chaos in the Einstein Equations

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John D. Barrow
Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

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Received 2 December 1980; published in the issue dated 13 April 1981

A very general cosmological solution to Einstein's equations exhibiting sensitive dependence on initial data is analyzed as a dynamical system. The metric and topologic entropies of the one-dimensional Poincaré map are determined and various results in number theory employed to calculate other invariants of the "chaotic" cosmological dynamics.

© 1981 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.46.963
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.46.963
PACS:
04.20.Jb, 02.50.+s, 95.30.Sf, 98.80.Dr

See Also

Erratum: John D. Barrow, Chaos in the Einstein Equations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 46, 1436 (1981).