On a dynamical system linked to the BKL scenario

Abstract

Abstract We consider the six-dimensional dynamical system in three components introduced by Ryan to describe the scenario of Belinskii, Khalatnikov and Lifshitz to the cosmological singularity when the spatial metric tensor is not diagonal. Despite its nonintegrability, recently proven by Goldstein and Piechocki, the three four-dimensional systems defined by canceling one of the three components happen to be integrable. We express their general solution as a rational function of, respectively, two exponential functions, a third Painlevé function, two exponential functions.