Chaotic Behavior in Higher Order Gravity Theories

1989
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 232 (1989) 172-176
  • Published: 1989

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We show that the chaotic dynamical behaviour displayed by diagonal Bianchi type IX metrics in general relativity does not occur on approach to the singularity in higher-order lagrangian theories of gravity. However, chaotic behaviour does occur in the more general non-diagonal type IX models in these theories. An interpretation of these results in terms of the hamiltonian potential picture of the type IX evolution is given.
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