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The Dominant Balance at Cosmological Singularities

Spiros Cotsakis, John D. Barrow

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0608137

Abstract

We define the notion of a finite-time singularity of a vector field and then discuss a technique suitable for the asymptotic analysis of vector fields and their integral curves in the neighborhood of such a singularity. Having in mind the application of this method to cosmology, we also provide an analysis of the time singularities of an isotropic universe filled with a perfect fluid in general relativity.

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