Fractal basins and chaotic trajectories in multi-black-hole spacetimes

C. P. Dettmann, N. E. Frankel, Neil J. Cornish

Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1994 · 100 citations · 21 references

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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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