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Author:   David Hobill ,  Adrian Burd ,  A.A. Coley
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   1994 ed.
Volume:   332
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   2.530kg
ISBN:  

9780306448119

ISBN 10:   0306448114
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   30 September 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

A Brief Review of “Deterministic Chaos in General Relativity”.- Mathematical Preliminaries.- to Dynamical Systems.- A Short Course on Chaotic Hamiltonian Systems.- Geometry of Perturbation Theory.- Between Integrability and Chaos.- On Defining Chaos in the Absence of Time.- On the Dynamics of Generators of Cauchy Horizons.- Compact Relativistic Systems.- Chaos in the Case of Two Fixed Black Holes.- Particle Motion Around Perturbed Black Holes: The Onset of Chaos.- Critical Behaviour in Scalar Field Collapse.- Cosmological Systems.- Relativistic Cosmologies.- Homoclinic Chaos in Relativistic Cosmology.- Mixing Properties of k = ?1 FLRW Models.- Classical and Quantum Chaos in Robertson-Walker Cosmologies.- Relativistic Fractal Cosmologies.- Self-Similar Asymptotic Solutions of Einstein’s Equations.- Nonlinearly Interacting Gravitational Waves in the Gowdy T3 Cosmology.- Bianchi IX (Mixmaster) Dynamics.- The Mixmaster Cosmological Metrics.- The Belinskii-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz Discrete Evolution as an Approximation to Mixmaster Dynamics.- How Can You Tell if the Bianchi IX Models Are Chaotic?.- The Chaoticity of the Bianchi IX Cosmological Model.- Chaos in the Einstein Equations-Characterization and Importance?.- Integrability of the Mixmaster Universe.- Continuous Time Dynamics and Iterative Maps of Ellis-MacCallum-Wainwright Variables.- A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Oscillatory Singularity in Bianchi Cosmologies.- Participants.

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