Pith. sign in

REVIEW 6 cited by

Cosmological Billiards

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv hep-th/0212256 v1 pith:UJABIVBV submitted 2002-12-20 hep-th astro-phgr-qc

Cosmological Billiards

classification hep-th astro-phgr-qc
keywords asymptoticallybilliarddegreesdescriptiondynamicsfreedomkac-moodyspace
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved
0 comments
read the original abstract

It is shown in detail that the dynamics of the Einstein-dilaton-p-form system in the vicinity of a spacelike singularity can be asymptotically described, at a generic spatial point, as a billiard motion in a region of Lobachevskii space (realized as an hyperboloid in the space of logarithmic scale factors). This is done within the Hamiltonian formalism, and for an arbitrary number of spacetime dimensions $D \geq 4$. A key role in the derivation is played by the Iwasawa decomposition of the spatial metric, and by the fact that the off-diagonal degrees of freedom, as well as the p-form degrees of freedom, get ``asymptotically frozen'' in this description. For those models admitting a Kac-Moody theoretic interpretation of the billiard dynamics we outline how to set up an asymptotically equivalent description in terms of a one-dimensional non-linear sigma-model formally invariant under the corresponding Kac-Moody group.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 6 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Non-Hermitian Holographic Flows to Little Rip Cosmologies

    hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 8.0

    A holographic model of a non-Hermitian PT-symmetric QFT produces black hole interiors that are isotropic Little Rip cosmologies, separated from standard Kasner behavior by a distinctive logarithmic signature in heavy-...

  2. Holographic Banners

    hep-th 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 8.0

    Holographic banners are four-argument on-shell actions that map thermofield double boundary states to future interior semiclassical states and yield BKL mixing timescales in AdS black holes.

  3. On a new class of high-corank Kac-Moody algebras

    math.RA 2026-07 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Recursive multigraph-based constructions produce families of generalized Cartan matrices with exponentially growing coranks for Kac-Moody algebras, with explicit spectra computed via adjacency eigenvalue multiplicity.

  4. Approaching the surface of an Exotic Compact Object

    hep-th 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    Near an Exotic Compact Object surface, vacuum Einstein equations yield chaotic oscillations with walls becoming cliffs, driving runaway squeezing that continues to fuzzball monopoles in string theory.

  5. Chaos and epoch structure in the deformed Mixmaster universe

    gr-qc 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    GUP deformation shortens Kasner epochs in the Mixmaster universe while polymerization lengthens them, with combined effects adding linearly and chaos strength depending on the deformation parameters.

  6. On Cosmologies and Vacua Driven by Tension and Curvatures

    hep-th 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 3.0

    Classifies singularity structures and asymptotics of cosmological solutions driven by exponential string potentials and curvatures k, k' in maximally symmetric spaces, emphasizing flat slices.