FRW cosmologies between chaos and integrability

A. E. Motter and P. S. Letelier
Phys. Rev. D 65, 068502 – Published 21 February 2002
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Abstract

A recent paper by Castagnino, Giacomini and Lara concludes that there is no chaos in a conformally coupled closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe, which is in apparent contradiction with previous works. We point out that although nonchaotic the quoted system is nonintegrable.

  • Received 12 November 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.068502

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

A. E. Motter* and P. S. Letelier

  • Departamento de Matemática Aplicada - IMECC, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-970 Campinas, Brazil

  • *Email address: motter@ime.unicamp.br
  • Email address: letelier@ime.unicamp.br

Original Article

Qualitative dynamical properties of a spatially closed FRW universe conformally coupled to a scalar field

M. A. Castagnino, H. Giacomini, and L. Lara
Phys. Rev. D 63, 044003 (2001)

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Vol. 65, Iss. 6 — 15 March 2002

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