Chaotic motion in pp -wave spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/11/015MaRDI QIDQ4699797zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K. Veselý, Jiří Podolský

Publication date 18 November 1999

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9809065

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicschaotic behaviourchaos in exact radiative spacetimesnon-homogeneous vacuum \(pp\)-wave solutionsplane-fronted gravitational waves with parallel rays \((pp\)-waves)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20)

Abstract: We investigate geodesics in non-homogeneous vacuum pp-wave solutions and demonstrate their chaotic behavior by rigorous analytic and numerical methods. For the particular class of solutions considered, distinct "outcomes" (channels to infinity) are identified, and it is shown that the boundary between different outcomes has a fractal structure. This seems to be the first example of chaos in exact radiative spacetimes.

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