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Non-standard sandwich gravitational waves are constructed from the homogeneous pp vacuum solution and the motions of free test particles in the space-times are calculated explicitly. They demonstrate the caustic property of sandwich waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Podolsky , K. Vesely

We study a reaction diffusion system of the activator-inhibitor type with inhomogeneous reaction terms showing spatiotemporal chaos. We analyze the topological properties of the unstable periodic orbits in the slow chaotic dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Bouzat , H. s Wio , G. B. Mindlin

We continue our studies of spherically symmetric self-similar solutions in the SU(2) sigma model coupled to gravity. For some values of the coupling constant we present numerical evidence for the chaotic solution and the fractal threshold…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sebastian J. Szybka

We describe a method for analyzing the phase space structures of Hamiltonian systems. This method is based on a time-frequency decomposition of a trajectory using wavelets. The ridges of the time-frequency landscape of a trajectory, also…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Chandre , S. Wiggins , T. Uzer

We show that rather simple but non-trivial boundary conditions could induce the appearance of spatial chaos (that is stationary, stable, but spatially disordered configurations) in extended dynamical systems with very simple dynamics. We…

We consider here a recently proposed geometrical criterion for local instability based on the geodesic deviation equation. Although such a criterion can be useful in some cases, we show here that, in general, it is neither necessary nor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alberto Saa

We consider the 3-body problem in relativistic lineal gravity and obtain an exact expression for its Hamiltonian and equations of motion. While general-relativistic effects yield more tightly-bound orbits of higher frequency compared to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 F. J. Burnell , R. B. Mann , T. Ohta

We write the equation of geodesic deviations in the spacetime of $pp$-waves in terms of the Newman-Penrose scalars and apply it to study gravitational waves in quadratic curvature gravity. We show that quadratic curvature gravity $pp$-waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Edgard C. de Rey Neto

Many dynamical systems of different complexity, e.g. 1D logistic map, the Lorentz equations, or real phenomena, like turbulent convection, show chaotic behaviour. Despite huge differences, the dynamical scenarios for these systems are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-24 R. Smolec , P. Moskalik

We study localized traveling waves and chaotic states in strongly nonlinear one-dimensional Hamiltonian lattices. We show that the solitary waves are super-exponentially localized, and present an accurate numerical method allowing to find…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Karsten Ahnert , Arkady Pikovsky

This paper summarises a numerical investigation which aimed to identify and characterise regular and chaotic behaviour in time-dependent Hamiltonians H(r,p,t) = p^2/2 + U(r,t), with U=R(t)V(r) or U=V[R(t)r], where V(r) is a polynomial in x,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Henry E. Kandrup , John Drury

In this paper, we study the mixed problem for new class of nonlinear reaction-diffusion PDEs with the nonlocal nonlinearity with variable exponents. Here we obtain results on solvability and behavior of solutions both when these are yet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-18 Kamal N. Soltanov

The method of detection of the unstable periodic spatio-temporal states of spatial extended chaotic systems has been proposed. The application of this method is illustrated by the consideration of two different systems: i) the fluid model…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-09-03 Alexander Hramov , Alexey Koronovskii

It is shown that, even when the eigenmodes of an optical cavity are wave-chaotic, the frequency splitting due to the rotation of the cavity occurs and the frequency difference is proportional to the angular velocity although the splitting…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takahisa Harayama , Satoshi Sunada , Tomohiro Miyasaka

Quantized, compact graphs were shown to be excellent paradigms for quantum chaos in bounded systems. Connecting them with leads to infinity we show that they display all the features which characterize scattering systems with an underlying…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Tsampikos Kottos , U. Smilansky

This paper explores the chaotic properties of an advection system expressed in difference equations form. In the beginning the Aref's blinking vortex system is examined. Then several new lines are explored related to the sink problem (one…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christos H. Skiadas

Theoretical foundations of chaos have have been predominantly laid out for finite-dimensional dynamical systems, such as the three-body problem in classical mechanics and the Lorenz model in dissipative systems. In contrast, many real-world…

A standard drift-diffusion model of space charge wave propagation in semiconductors has been studied numerically and analytically under dc voltage bias. For sufficiently long samples, appropriate contact resistivity and applied voltage -…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 I. R. Cantalapiedra , M. J. Bergmann , L. L. Bonilla , S. W. Teitsworth

Chaotic scattering is a manifestation of transient chaos realized by the scattering with non-integrable potential. When the initial position is taken in the potential, a particle initially exhibits chaotic motion, but escapes outside after…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Osamu Fukushima , Kentaroh Yoshida

This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves from an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is established, employing the integral equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-09 xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang