A fractal set of perpetually bouncing universe?

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, , Citation D N Page 1984 Class. Quantum Grav. 1 417 DOI 10.1088/0264-9381/1/4/015

0264-9381/1/4/417

Abstract

For a Friedman-Robertson-Walker universe minimally coupled to a massive scalar field, Hawking (1983) has shown that there is a countably infinite discrete set of periodic solutions which bounce without a singularity. Here it is suggested that there is also an uncountably infinite but still discrete set of perpetually bouncing aperiodic solutions. The latter set appears to form a fractal with positive Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension.

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10.1088/0264-9381/1/4/015