The cosmological singularity / Vladimir Belinski, International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network, Italy, Marc Henneaux, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
| Author/creator | Belinski, V., 1941- author. |
| Other author | Henneaux, Marc, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018. |
| Description | xii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics. ^A236857 |
| Contents | Introduction -- Part I. BKL analysis. Basic structure of cosmological singularity -- Homogeneous cosmological models -- On the cosmological chaos -- On the influence of matter and space-time dimension -- Part II. Cosmological billiards. The billiard of four-dimensional vacuum gravity -- General cosmological billiards -- Hyperbolic Coxeter groups -- Appendices. A. Various technical derivations -- B. Homogeneous spaces and Bianchi classification -- C. Spinor field -- D. Lorentzian Kac-Moody algebras. |
| Abstract | "The Cosmological Singularity written for researchers focusing on general relativity, supergravity, and cosmology, this is a self-contained exposition of the structure of the cosmological singularity in generic solutions of the Einstein equations, and an up-to-date mathematical derivation of the theory underlying the Belinski-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz (BKL) conjecture on this field"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-260) and index. |
| LCCN | 2017025022 |
| ISBN | 9781107047471 hardback |
| ISBN | 1107047471 hardback |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | QC20.7 .S54 B45 2018 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |