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Chaos in Anisotropic Pre-Inflationary Universes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We study the dynamics of anisotropic Bianchi type-IX models with matter and cosmological constant. The models can be thought as describing the role of anisotropy in the early stages of inflation. The concurrence of the cosmological constant and anisotropy are sufficient to produce a chaotic dynamics in the gravitational degrees of freedom, connected to the presence of a critical point of saddle-center type in the phase space of the system. The invariant character of chaos is guaranteed by the topology of the cylinders emanating from unstable periodic orbits in the neighborhood of the saddle-center. We discuss a possible mechanism for amplification of specific wavelengths of inhomogeneous fluctuations in the models. A geometrical interpretation is given for Wald's inequality in terms of invariant tori and their destruction by increasing values of the cosmological constant.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9702044,
  title  = {Chaos in Anisotropic Pre-Inflationary Universes},
  author = {H. P. de Oliveira and I. Damiao Soares and T. J. Stuchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9702044},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, figures available under request. submitted to Physical Review D