Apr 23, 1999
Quiescent Cosmological Singularities
Dr. Alan Rendall, ITP & Max-Planck Inst.
In this talk I started by reviewing the history of investigations of
spacetime singularities in general relativity, with special emphasis
on the ideas of Belinskii, Khalatnikov and Lifshitz (BKL). I then went
on to describe recent work by Lars Andersson and myself on
singularities in solutions of the Einstein equations coupled to a
scalar field, which provides a rigorous mathematical justification
for the BKL ideas in that context. I thank Jim Isenberg for taking
the notes reproduced below.
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