Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: We demonstrate the chaotic behavior of timelike, null, and spacelike geodesics in nonhomogeneous vacuum $\mathrm{pp}$-wave solutions by analytic and fractal methods. This seems to be the first known example of a chaotic motion in exact radiative spacetime.
Authors: Jiří Podolský, Karel Veselý
Institution: Charles University
Language: Latvian
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W52175714