Bianchi models with vorticity: The type III bifurcation

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We study the late-time behaviour of tilted perfect fluid Bianchi type III models using a dynamical systems approach.

• We consider models with dust, and perfect fluids stiffer than dust, and eludicate the late-time behaviour by studying the centre manifold which dominates the behaviour of the model at late times.
• In the dust case, this centre manifold is 3-dimensional and can be considered as a double bifurcation as the 2 parameters ($h$ and $\gamma$) of the type VI$_h$ model are varied.
• We calculate the decay rates and show that for dust or stiffer the models approach a vacuum spacetime, however, it does so rather slowly: $\rho/H^2\sim 1/\ln t$.