A new interpretation of zero Lyapunov exponents in BKL time for Mixmaster cosmology

Abstract

A global relationship between cosmological time and Belinskii-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz (BKL) time during the entire evolution of the Mixmaster Bianchi IX universe is used to explain why all the Lyapunov exponents are zero at the BKL time. The actual reason is that the domain of the cosmological time is finite as the BKL time runs from minus infinity to infinity.