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Chandrima Ganguly1, Marco Bruni2,3
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wilder Laboratories, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA.
Abstract:
A Bianchi type-IX mixmaster spacetime is the most general spatially homogeneous solution of Einstein's equations and it can represent the space-averaged universe. We introduce two novel mechanisms resulting in a mixmaster universe with nonsingular bounces that are quasi-isotropic. Matter with a nonlinear equation of state allows these bounces. Using a negative anisotropic stress successfully isotropizes this universe and mitigates the well-known mixmaster chaotic behavior. The Universe can be an eternal mixmaster spacetime, going through an infinite series of quasi-isotropic cycles separated by bounces.
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