CHAOS AND FRACTALS AROUND BLACK HOLES

DOI10.1142/S0218348X9500014XMaRDI QIDQ4351171zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. E. Frankel, Neil J. Cornish, Carl P. Dettmann

Publication date 27 August 1997

Published in Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9502014

zbMATH Keywords

basins of attractionblack hole spacetimeschaotic systemsfractal boundariesgeneral relativityLyapunov exponentsmotion of particlestrajectories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: Fractal basin boundaries provide an important means of characterizing chaotic systems. We apply these ideas to general relativity, where other properties such as Lyapunov exponents are difficult to define in an observer independent manner. Here we discuss the difficulties in describing chaotic systems in general relativity and investigate the motion of particles in two- and three-black-hole spacetimes. We show that the dynamics is chaotic by exhibiting the basins of attraction of the black holes which have fractal boundaries. Overcoming problems of principle as well as numerical difficulties, we evaluate Lyapunov exponents numerically and find that some trajectories have a positive exponent.

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