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MGR Programmatic Seminar: BKL singularity, spikes and inhomogeneous cosmology November 26, 2013 (01:30 PM PST - 02:30 PM PST)
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Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium
Speaker(s) Woei Chet Lim (University of Waikato)
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How does a general solution to the EFE behave near a singularity? The BKL conjecture states that a generic singularity is vacuum-dominated, local and oscillatory. However, numerical exploration discovered non-local inhomogeneous structures called spikes, whose exact solutions are discovered in 2008. Spikes provide a way to generate matter inhomogeneity in the alternative paradigm of inhomogeneous cosmology. The electromagnetic spike solutions are discovered recently.

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