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Fragility in Cosmology and Astrophysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R.K. Tavakol
R.K. Tavakol*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, England

Abstract

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The theoretical framework adopted in astrophysics and cosmology, in both modelling and the analysis of the observational data, is often implicitly assumed to be that of structural stability. Here, in view of some of the recent results in dynamical systems theory, it is argued that such a framework cannot be assumed a priori and that the fragility framework may instead turn out to be the appropriate framework for the study of certain phenomena in the astrophysical and the cosmological settings. This is motivated by a number of examples from cosmology and a brief discussion of some of the potential domains of its relevance in astrophysics.

Type
Part V General Celestial Mechanics and Stellar Dynamics
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 132: Instability, Chaos and Predictability in Celestial Mechanics and Stellar Dynamics , 1993 , pp. 399 - 405
Copyright
Copyright © Nova Science Publishers 1993

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