The Gowdy T3 Cosmologies revisited
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-30 v2
Abstract
We have examined, repeated and extended earlier numerical calculations of Berger and Moncrief for the evolution of unpolarized Gowdy T3 cosmological models. Our results are consistent with theirs and we support their claim that the models exhibit AVTD behaviour, even though spatial derivatives cannot be neglected. The behaviour of the curvature invariants and the formation of structure through evolution both backwards and forwards in time is discussed.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9708038,
title = {The Gowdy T3 Cosmologies revisited},
author = {S. D. Hern and J. M. Stewart},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9708038},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, LaTeX, 6 figures, results and conclusions revised and (considerably) expanded