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The future asymptotics of Bianchi VIII vacuum solutions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Bianchi VIII vacuum solutions to Einstein's equations are causally geodesically complete to the future, given an appropriate time orientation, and the objective of this article is to analyze the asymptotic behaviour of solutions in this time direction. For the Bianchi class A spacetimes, there is a formulation of the field equations that was presented in an article by Wainwright and Hsu, and we analyze the asymptotic behaviour of solutions in these variables. We also try to give the analytic results a geometric interpretation by analyzing how a normalized version of the Riemannian metric on the spatial hypersurfaces of homogeneity evolves.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0103107,
  title  = {The future asymptotics of Bianchi VIII vacuum solutions},
  author = {Hans Ringstrom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0103107},
  year   = {2009}
}

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