Chaos in a modified Hénon-Heiles system describing geodesics in gravitational waves

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00391-1MaRDI QIDQ997640zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors K. Veselý, Jiří Podolský

Publication date 7 August 2007

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0006066

zbMATH Keywords

chaotic motiongravitational wavesHénon-Heiles system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) 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)

Abstract: A Hamiltonian system with a modified Henon-Heiles potential is investigated. This describes the motion of free test particles in vacuum gravitational pp-wave spacetimes with both quadratic ("homogeneous") and cubic ("non-homogeneous") terms in the structural function. It is shown that, for energies above a certain value, the motion is chaotic in the sense that the boundaries separating the basins of possible escapes become fractal. Similarities and differences with the standard Henon-Heiles and the monkey saddle systems are discussed. The box-counting dimension of the basin boundaries is also calculated.

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