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Chaotic strings in a near Penrose limit of AdS

arXiv:1505.07583 · doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2015)060

Abstract

We study chaotic motions of a classical string in a near Penrose limit of AdS. It is known that chaotic solutions appear on , depending on initial conditions. It may be interesting to ask whether the chaos persists even in Penrose limits or not. In this paper, we show that sub-leading corrections in a Penrose limit provide an unstable separatrix, so that chaotic motions are generated as a consequence of collapsed Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) tori. Our analysis is based on deriving a reduced system composed of two degrees of freedom by supposing a winding string ansatz. Then, we provide support for the existence of chaos by computing Poincare sections. In comparison to the AdS case, we argue that no chaos lives in a near Penrose limit of AdSS, as expected from the classical integrability of the parent system.

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