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Chaotic exit to inflation: the dynamics of pre-inflationary universes

1997/11/05 by H. P. de Oliveira, de Oliveira, H. P., I. Damião Soares +4
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Physics and Astronomy · #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9711014

3 pages, Latex (mprocl.sty), 4 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Jerusalem, June 1997

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Abstract

We show that anisotropic Bianchi type-IX models, with matter and cosmological constant have chaotic dynamics, connected to the presence of a saddle-center in phase space. The topology of cylinders emanating from unstable periodic orbits about the saddle-center provides an invariant characterization of chaos in the models. The model can be thought to describe the early stages of inflation, the way out to inflation being chaotic.

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