Comment on "Gravity Waves, Chaos, and Spinning Compact Binaries"
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
Levin (gr-qc/9910040) has shown that spinning compact binaries can be chaotic at second post-Newtonian order. However, when higher order dissipational effects are included, the dynamics will no longer be chaotic, though the evolution may still be unpredictable in a practical sense. I discuss some of the additional work that needs to be done to decide how this unpredictability might affect gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0101041,
title = {Comment on "Gravity Waves, Chaos, and Spinning Compact Binaries"},
author = {Neil J. Cornish},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0101041},
year = {2008}
}
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