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Graham, Alexander | |||||||
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University of Cambridge - Wilberforce Road - Cambridge - Cambridgeshire - United Kingdom | |||||||
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EU3 |
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Weak Singularities in Cosmology | |||||
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It is well known that our universe almost certainly contains a singularity in the past, and that it can also develop a singularity to the future. The best know example of this is called the Big Crunch, but recent years have shown that a wide variety of exotic future singularities can also exist, many of which are of a very weak nature. I review these results and describe recent work which demonstrates that these weak singularities generically form in a universe containing a scalar field with a power-law potential. Extensions and implications are briefly discussed. |
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