Mixmaster Behavior in Inhomogeneous Cosmological Spacetimes

Abstract

Numerical investigation of a class of inhomogeneous cosmological spacetimes shows evidence that at a generic point in space the evolution toward the initial singularity is asymptotically that of a spatially homogeneous spacetime with Mixmaster behavior. This supports a long-standing conjecture due to Belinskii et al. on the nature of the generic singularity in Einstein's equations.

4 pages plus 4 figures. A sentence has been deleted. Accepted for publication in PRL

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