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Robust Wada Boundaries and Entropy Scaling in pp-Wave Spacetimes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-04-07 v2 Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

We study the dynamics of the geodesics of pp-wave spacetimes with polynomial profiles, which are dynamically equivalent to the motion of a classical particle in a two-dimensional harmonic polynomial potential. We demonstrate that the Wada property of the escape basins is robust under variation of the polynomial degree, i.e., the basin boundaries remain maximally intermingled as the number of escape channels increases. We further provide a quantitative characterization of the degree of dynamical uncertainty by computing the basin entropy SbS_{b} and the boundary basin entropy SbbS_{bb}. We find that these measures increase monotonically with the polynomial degree, indicating enhanced unpredictability of the final state of the system. We also show that SbbS_{bb} is greater than ln(2)\ln(2) for n>3n>3, and this confirms that the basin boundaries are fractal.

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@article{arxiv.2601.09101,
  title  = {Robust Wada Boundaries and Entropy Scaling in pp-Wave Spacetimes},
  author = {Pedro Henrique Barboza Rossetto and Vanessa Carvalho de Andrade and Daniel Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.09101},
  year   = {2026}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures