Chaos inpp-wave spacetimes

1998/05/20 by Jiřı́ Podolský, J. Podolsky, K. Vesely +1 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.58.081501

published as Phys.Rev.D58:081501,1998 · 4 pages, revtex, 3 figures (.pcx)

arxiv created 1998/05/20 · openalex publication_date 1998/09/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We demonstrate the chaotic behavior of timelike, null, and spacelike geodesics in nonhomogeneous vacuum pp-wave solutions by analytic and fractal methods. This seems to be the first known example of a chaotic motion in exact radiative spacetime.

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