Chaotic motion in Kundt spacetimes

Article

Chaotic motion in Kundt spacetimes

Podolský, J; Kofroň, D.

Class. Quantum Grav. 24(0), 3413-3424 (2007)

Abstract

We demonstrate that geodesics in exact vacuum Kundt gravitational waves may exhibit a highly complicated behaviour. In fact, as in the previously studied case of non-homogeneous pp-waves, for specific choices of the structural function the motion appears to be genuinely chaotic. This fact is demonstrated by the fractal method.

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GACR 202/06/0041 — Contemporary problems of general relativity and gravitation
LC06014 — Centrum teoretické astrofyziky

BibTeX

@article{UTF190,
  author        = {Podolský, J and Kofroň, D.},
  title         = {{Chaotic motion in Kundt spacetimes}},
  journal       = {Class. Quantum Grav.},
  volume        = {24},
  number        = {0},
  pages         = {3413-3424},
  year          = {2007},
  doi           = {10.1088/0264-9381/24/13/016},
  eprint        = {0705.3098},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0264-9381/24/13/016/cqg7\_13\_016.pdf},
}