Mixmaster dynamics in the dust time gauge
arXiv:1707.07098 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.044032
Abstract
We study the Hamiltonian dynamics of the dust-Bianchi IX universe in dust time gauge. This model has three physical metric degrees of freedom, with evolution determined by a time-independent physical Hamiltonian. This approach gives a new physical picture where dust-Bianchi IX dynamics is described by oscillations between dust-Kasner solutions, rather than between vacuum-Kasner solutions. We derive a generalized transition law between these phases, which has a matter component. Sufficiently close to a singularity, we show that this law reduces to the vacuum Belinski-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz map. We include an analysis with dust and a scalar field. Lastly, we describe a path integral quantization using the dust-time physical Hamiltonian and derive an effective action for the dust-Kasner model by integrating out the anisotropy degrees of freedom.
27 pages, 4 figures
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