Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2004-02-12
Gen.Rel.Grav. 36 (2004) 2085-2094
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Latex, 14 pages, no figures. Submitted to Gen. Rel. Grav
Scientific paper
10.1023/B:GERG.0000038473.76575.
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.
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