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Oscillatory spacelike singularities: The Bianchi type $\mathrm{VI}_{-1/9}$ vacuum models

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-09-01 v2 Mathematical Physics Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

The Bianchi type VI1/9\mathrm{VI}_{-1/9}, VIII\mathrm{VIII} and IX\mathrm{IX} vacuum models all have 4-dimensional Hubble-normalized state spaces and are expected to have a generic initial oscillatory singularity, but the invariant boundary sets responsible for the oscillations are much more complicated for type VI1/9\mathrm{VI}_{-1/9} than those of type VIII\mathrm{VIII} and IX\mathrm{IX}. For the first time, we explicitly solve the equations on these type VI1/9\mathrm{VI}_{-1/9} boundary sets and also introduce a new graph representation of the associated network of heteroclinic chains (i.e. sequences of solutions describing the oscillations). In particular, we give examples of networks of entangled cyclic heteroclinic chains and show that only some of these cyclic heteroclinic chains are asymptotically relevant.

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@article{arxiv.2410.10375,
  title  = {Oscillatory spacelike singularities: The Bianchi type $\mathrm{VI}_{-1/9}$ vacuum models},
  author = {Phillipo Lappicy and Claes Uggla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.10375},
  year   = {2025}
}

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65 pages, 24 figures

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