The structure of singularities in inhomogeneous cosmological models
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Recent progress in understanding the structure of cosmological singularities is reviewed. The well-known picture due to Belinskii, Khalatnikov and Lifschitz (BKL) is summarized briefly and it is discussed what existing analytical and numerical results have to tell us about the validity of this picture. If the BKL description is correct then most cosmological singularities are complicated. However there are some cases where it predicts simple singularities. These cases should be particularly amenable to mathematical investigation and the results in this direction which have been achieved so far are described.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9804036,
title = {The structure of singularities in inhomogeneous cosmological models},
author = {Alan D. Rendall},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9804036},
year = {2007}
}
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5 pages, to appear in proceedings of conference on mathematical cosmology, Potsdam, 1998