FRACTAL BASINS AND CHAOTIC TRAJECTORIES IN MULTI-BLACK-HOLE SPACETIMES

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作者
DETTMANN, CP [1 ]
FRANKEL, NE [1 ]
CORNISH, NJ [1 ]
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[1] UNIV TORONTO, DEPT PHYS, TORONTO M5S 1A7, ONTARIO, CANADA
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10.1103/PhysRevD.50.R618
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We investigate the phase space for trajectories in multi-black-hole spacetimes. We find that complete, chaotic geodesics are well described by Lyapunov exponents, and that the attractor basin boundary scales as a fractal in a diffeomorphism-invariant manner.
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页码:R618 / R621
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