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Perturbations of generic Kasner spacetimes and their stability

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-03-19 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

This article investigates the stability of a generic Kasner spacetime to linear perturbations, both at late and early times. It demonstrates that the perturbation of the Weyl tensor diverges at late time in all cases but in the particular one in which the Kasner spacetime is the product of a two-dimensional Milne spacetime and a two-dimensional Euclidean space. At early times, the perturbation of the Weyl tensor also diverges unless one imposes a condition on the perturbations so as to avoid the most divergent modes to be excited.

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@article{arxiv.1102.3071,
  title  = {Perturbations of generic Kasner spacetimes and their stability},
  author = {Lev Kofman and Jean-Philippe Uzan and Cyril Pitrou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.3071},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages, 6 figures