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On the Covariance of the Mixmaster Chaoticity

G. P. Imponente, G. Montani

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0102067

Abstract

We analyze the dynamics of the Mixmaster Universe on the base of a standard Arnowitt-Deser-Misner Hamiltonian approach showing how its asymptotic evolution to the cosmological singularity is isomorphic to a billiard on the Lobachevsky plane. The key result of our study consists in the temporary gauge invariance of the billiard representation, once provided the use of very general Misner-Chitre'-like variables.

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