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Fractal basins and chaotic trajectories in multi-black hole space-times

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-12-30 v1

Abstract

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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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9402027,
  title  = {Fractal basins and chaotic trajectories in multi-black hole space-times},
  author = {N. J. Cornish and C. P. Dettmann and N. E. Frankel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9402027},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, RevTeX, 4 figures (appended as a compressed tar file), UTPT-93-32, UM-P-94/18