Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2984–2987 (1998)

Mixmaster Behavior in Inhomogeneous Cosmological Spacetimes

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Marsha Weaver^1,*, James Isenberg^2,†, and Beverly K. Berger^3,‡
¹Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403
²Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403
³Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, Michagan 48309

Received 16 December 1997; published in the issue dated 6 April 1998

Numerical investigation of a class of inhomogeneous cosmological spacetimes shows evidence that at a generic point in space the evolution toward the initial singularity is asymptotically that of a spatially homogeneous spacetime with mixmaster behavior. This supports a long-standing conjecture due to Belinskii et al. on the nature of the generic singularity in Einstein's equations.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2984

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2984

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98.80.Hw, 04.20.Dw

^*Electronic address: weaver@darkwing.uoregon.edu

^†Electronic address: jim@newton.uoregon.edu

^‡Electronic address: berger@oakland.edu

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2984–2987 (1998)

Mixmaster Behavior in Inhomogeneous Cosmological Spacetimes