Chaos in pp-wave spacetimes

Article

Chaos in pp-wave spacetimes

Podolský, J; Veselý, K.

Phys. Rev. D 58(0), 081501-+ (1998)

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.

Institute authors

Podolský, Jiří

Supported by

GACR 202/96/0206 — Relativistic physics and astrophysics
GAUK 230/1996 — Relativistická teorie gravitace, astrofyzika a kosmologie

BibTeX

@article{UTF145,
  author        = {Podolský, J and Veselý, K.},
  title         = {{Chaos in pp-wave spacetimes}},
  journal       = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume        = {58},
  number        = {0},
  pages         = {081501-+},
  year          = {1998},
  doi           = {10.1103/PhysRevD.58.081501},
  eprint        = {gr-qc/9805078},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {http://prola.aps.org/pdf/PRD/v58/i8/e081501},
}