Robust Wada Boundaries and Entropy Scaling in pp-Wave Spacetimes

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Authors: Pedro Henrique Barboza Rossetto, V. C. de Andrade, Daniel Müller
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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 $S_{b}$ and the boundary basin entropy $S_{bb}$. 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 $S_{bb}$ is greater than $\ln(2)$ for $n>3$, and this confirms that the basin boundaries are fractal.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals Quantum chaos and dynamical systems Chaos control and synchronization

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
14 January 2026
Document type
Preprint