M. Szydlowski et A. Krawiec, LOCAL INSTABILITY OF BIANCHI-IX DYNAMICS IN THE FIRST BKL APPROXIMATION, Chaos, solitons and fractals, 7(11), 1996, pp. 1923-1927
The generalized criterion of the local instability from the geodesic d
eviation equation is demonstrated. We show that in the first BKL appro
ximation of the Bianchi IX model the singularity of the inverse Jacobi
metric or the Ricci scalar does not mean the corresponding singularit
y in the geodesic deviation equation. We also calculate the characteri
stic Lyapunov time for the chaotic B(IX) dynamics. Copyright (C) 1996
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