Spacelike geodesics and other puzzles in the Mixmaster Universe

In this thesis we are going to investigate the behaviour of geodesics in a metric with a singularity known as the ``Mixmaster Universe''. This was motivated from previous work done, where the now well-known AdS/CFT correspondence was used to extract information about an AdS Schwarzschild b...

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Main Author: Kenway, Angharad Sonia
Published: Durham University 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549117