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Cosmological-Billiards Groups and self-adjoint BKL Transfer Operators

Orchidea Maria Lecian
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Cosmological billiards arise as a map of the solution of the Einstein equations, when the most general symmetry for the metric tensor is hypothesized, and points are considered as spatially decoupled in the asymptotic limit towards the cosmological singularity, according to the BKL (Belinski Khalatnikov Lifshitz) paradigm. In $4=3+1$ dimensions, two kinds of cosmological billiards are considered: the so-called 'big billiard' which accounts for pure gravity, and the 'small billiard', which is a symmetry-reduced version of the previous one, and is obtained when the 'symmetry walls' are considered. The solution of Einstein field equations is this way mapped to the (discrete) Poincar\'e map of a billiard ball on the sides of a triangular billiard table, in the Upper Poincar\'e Half Plane (UPHP). The billiard modular group is the scheme within which the dynamics of classical chaotic systems on surfaces of constant negative curvature is analyzed. The periodic orbits of the two kinds of billiards are classified, according to the different symmetry-quotienting mechanisms. The differences with the description implied by the billiard modular group are investigated and outlined. In the quantum regime, the eigenvalues (i.e. the sign that wavefunctions acquire according to quantum BKL maps) for periodic phenomena of the BKL maps on the Maass wavefunctions are classified. The complete spectrum of the semiclassical operators which act as BKL map for periodic orbits is obtained. Differently form the case of the modular group, here it is shown that the semiclassical transfer operator for Cosmological Billiards is not only the adjoint operator of the one acting on the Maass waveforms, but that the two operators are the same \it{self-adjoint} operator, thus outlining a different approach to the Langlands Jaquet correspondence.

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Orchidea Maria Lecian. 2015-07-25. Cosmological-Billiards Groups and self-adjoint BKL Transfer Operators. https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07085

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