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Billiard Representation for Multidimensional Cosmology with Multicomponent Perfect Fluid near the Singularity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-04-06 v2

Abstract

The multidimensional cosmological model describing the evolution of nn Einstein spaces in the presence of multicomponent perfect fluid is considered. When certain restrictions on the parameters of the model are imposed, the dynamics of the model near the singularity is reduced to a billiard on the (n1)(n-1)-dimensional Lobachevsky space Hn1H^{n-1}. The geometrical criterion for the finiteness of the billiard volume and its compactness is suggested. This criterion reduces the problem to the problem of illumination of (n2)(n-2)-dimensional sphere Sn2S^{n-2} by point-like sources. Some generalization of the considered scheme (including scalar field and quantum generalizations) are considered.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9407028,
  title  = {Billiard Representation for Multidimensional Cosmology with Multicomponent Perfect Fluid near the Singularity},
  author = {V. D. Ivashchuk and V. N. Melnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9407028},
  year   = {2010}
}

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16 pages, LaTex. 4 figures are available upon request (hard copy)

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