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We show that the Mixmaster Universe, or Bianchi IX, model passes the Painlevé test, i.e. the solutions of the equations of motion have only poles as movable singularities. Thus this system is probably integrable and therefore non-chaotic.
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Contopoulos, G., Grammaticos, B., Ramani, A. (1994). Integrability of the Mixmaster Universe. In: Hobill, D., Burd, A., Coley, A. (eds) Deterministic Chaos in General Relativity. NATO ASI Series, vol 332. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9993-4_23
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