Smearing of chaos in sandwich pp -waves

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/11/310zbMATH Open0947.83019arXivgr-qc/9909012OpenAlexW2134983047MaRDI QIDQ4935700FDOQ4935700

Authors: K. Veselý, Jiří Podolský 

Publication date: 12 November 2000

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

Abstract: Recent results demonstrating the chaotic behavior of geodesics in non-homogeneous vacuum pp-wave solutions are generalized. Here we concentrate on motion in non-homogeneous sandwich pp-waves and show that chaos smears as the duration of these gravitational waves is reduced. As the number of radial bounces of any geodesic decreases, the outcome channels to infinity become fuzzy, and thus the fractal structure of the initial conditions characterizing chaos is cut at lower and lower levels. In the limit of impulsive waves, the motion is fully non-chaotic. This is proved by presenting the geodesics in a simple explicit form which permits a physical interpretation, and demonstrates the focusing effect. It is shown that a circle of test particles is deformed by the impulse into a family of closed hypotrochoidal curves in the transversal plane. These are deformed in the longitudinal direction in such a way that a specific closed caustic surface is formed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9909012

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zbMATH Keywords

impulsive waveschaotic behaviour of geodesicsvacuum \(pp\)-wave solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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• Exact parallel waves in general relativity
• Chaotic motion in Kundt spacetimes
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• The regularity of geodesics in impulsive \(pp\)-waves

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