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We describe the behaviour of the orthogonal Bianchi cosmologies of types VIII and IX near the big-bang in terms of an attractor of a dynamical system. Comparisons are made with previous work.
This paper is a corrected version of the article appearing in Relativity Today, edited by Z. Perjés, Nova Science Publishers, Commack, NY, 1992
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Ma, P.KH., Wainwright, J. (1994). A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Oscillatory Singularity in Bianchi Cosmologies. In: Hobill, D., Burd, A., Coley, A. (eds) Deterministic Chaos in General Relativity. NATO ASI Series, vol 332. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9993-4_25
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