Classical and Quantum Features of the Mixmaster Singularity
Abstract
This review article is devoted to analyze the main properties characterizing the cosmological singularity associated to the homogeneous and inhomogeneous Mixmaster model. After the introduction of the main tools required to treat the cosmological issue, we review in details the main results got along the last forty years on the Mixmaster topic. We firstly assess the classical picture of the homogeneous chaotic cosmologies and, after a presentation of the canonical method for the quantization, we develop the quantum Mixmaster behavior. Finally, we extend both the classical and quantum features to the fully inhomogeneous case. Our survey analyzes the fundamental framework of the Mixmaster picture and completes it by accounting for recent and peculiar outstanding results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0712.3008,
title = {Classical and Quantum Features of the Mixmaster Singularity},
author = {Giovanni Montani and Marco Valerio Battisti and Riccardo Benini and Giovanni Imponente},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.3008},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
170 pages, 14 figures, ~500 references. Invited review paper to appear on Int. J. Mod. Phys. A. v2: minor changes, references added. v3: Conclusions added