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Gowdy phenomenology in scale-invariant variables

Lars Andersson, Henk van Elst, Claes Uggla

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0310127

Abstract

The dynamics of Gowdy vacuum spacetimes is considered in terms of Hubble-normalized scale-invariant variables, using the timelike area temporal gauge. The resulting state space formulation provides for a simple mechanism for the formation of ``false'' and ``true spikes'' in the approach to the singularity, and a geometrical formulation for the local attractor.

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