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Space-based next-generation interferometers propose to measure the Lyapunov exponents of the nearly bound geodesics that comprise the photon ring surrounding the black hole M87*. We argue that these classical Lyapunov exponents equal the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Shahar Hadar , Daniel Kapec , Alexandru Lupsasca , Andrew Strominger

The bright ring-like structures observed in the images of M87* and SgrA* captured by the Event Horizon Telescope strongly support the validity of general relativity. Lensed images of the emission region, often referred to as photon rings in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 Kiana Salehi , Avery Broderick

In this letter, we study proper time Lyapunov exponents and coordinate time Lyapunov exponents of chaos for both massless and massive particles orbiting a four-dimensional Kerr-AdS black hole, and explore their relationships with the phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 Deyou Chen , Chuang Yang , Yongtao Liu

We conjecture that there exists a relationship between Lyapunov exponents and black hole phase transitions. To support our conjecture, Lyapunov exponents of the motion of particles and ring strings are calculated for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-07 Xiaobo Guo , Yuhang Lu , Benrong Mu , Peng Wang

In this paper, we study the stability of geodesic motion for both massive and massless particles using Lyapunov exponents in the non-commutative (NC) Schwarzschild black hole (BH) via the gauge theory of gravity. As a first step, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-17 Abdellah Touati , Zaim Slimane

We study the relationship between the standard or extended thermodynamic phase structure of various AdS black holes and the Lyapunov exponents associated with the null and time-like geodesics. We consider dyonic, Bardeen, Gauss-Bonnet, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-29 Bhaskar Shukla , Pranaya Pratik Das , David Dudal , Subhash Mahapatra

We investigate whether photon ring observations in black hole imaging are able to distinguish between the Kerr black hole in general relativity and alternative black holes that deviate from Kerr. Certain aspects of photon rings have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 Seppe Staelens , Daniel R. Mayerson , Fabio Bacchini , Bart Ripperda , Lorenzo Küchler

We study the Lyapunov exponents for a moving, charged particle in a two-dimensional Lorentz gas with randomly placed, non-overlapping hard disk scatterers placed in a thermostatted electric field, $\vec{E}$. The low density values of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Panja , J. R. Dorfman , Henk van Beijeren

In this paper, we investigate Lyapunov exponents associated with chaotic motions of both massless and massive particles in the vicinity of a Kerr-Newman AdS black hole. Our exploration focuses on their correlations with the black hole phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-19 Chuang Yang , Chuanhong Gao , Deyou Chen , Xiaoxiong Zeng

We derive proper-time Lyapunov exponent $(\lambda_{p})$ and coordinate-time Lyapunov exponent $(\lambda_{c})$ for a regular Hayward class of black hole. The proper-time corresponds to $\tau$ and the coordinate time corresponds to $t$. Where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Monimala Mondal , Parthapratim Pradhan , Farook Rahaman , Indrani Karar

General relativity has been tested by many experiments, which, however, almost exclusively probe weak spacetime curvatures. In this thesis, I create two frameworks for testing general relativity in the strong-field regime with observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Tim Johannsen

We analyze the null geodesics of regular black holes. A detailed analysis of geodesic structure both null geodesics and time-like geodesics have been investigated for the said black hole. As an application of null geodecics, we calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Monimala Mondal , Anil Kumar Yadav , Parthapratim Pradhan , Sayeedul Islam , Farook Rahaman

We investigate the stability of both timelike as well as null circular geodesics in the vicinity of a dual (3+1) dimensional stringy black hole (BH) spacetime by using an excellent tool so-called Lyapunov exponent. The proper time ($\tau$)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-13 Shobhit Giri , Hemwati Nandan

Geodesic motion has significant characteristics of space-time. We calculate the principle Lyapunov exponent (LE), which is the inverse of the instability timescale associated with this geodesics and Kolmogorov-Senai (KS) entropy for our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-05 Monimala Mondal , Farook Rahaman , Ksh. Newton Singh

The dependence of the Lyapunov exponent on the closeness parameter, $\epsilon$, in tangent bifurcation systems is investigated. We study and illustrate two averaging procedures for defining Lyapunov exponents in such systems. First, we…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 James Hanssen , Walter Wilcox

Chaotic systems near black holes satisfy a universal bound, $\lambda \leq \kappa_H$ linking the Lyapunov coefficient $\lambda$ associated with unstable orbits to surface gravity $\kappa_H$ of the event horizon. A natural question is whether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Emanuel Gallo , Thomas Mädler

We study the physics of photon rings in a wide range of axisymmetric black holes admitting a separable Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the geodesics. Utilizing the Killing-Yano tensor, we derive the Penrose limit of the black holes, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 D. Giataganas , A. Kehagias , A. Riotto

We study the phase structure of hyperscaling violating black holes using Lyapunov exponents. For describing hyperscaling violating system, we chose a particular gravity model constructed from generalized Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton action…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 A. Naveena Kumara , Shreyas Punacha , Md Sabir Ali

We study the dynamics of test particle and stability of circular geodesics in the gravitational field of a non-commutative geometry inspired Schwarzschild black hole spacetime (NCSBH). The coordinate time Lyapunov exponent ($\lambda_{c}$)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Shobhit Giri , Hemwati Nandan , Lokesh Kumar Joshi , Sunil D. Maharaj

Despite the prominent importance of the Lyapunov exponents for characterizing chaos, it still remains a challenge to measure them for large experimental systems, mainly because of the lack of recurrences in time series analysis. Here we…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-20 Taro P. Shimizu , Kazumasa A. Takeuchi
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