Chaotic Motion near Black Hole and Cosmological Horizons

TL;DR

This paper explores the chaotic behavior of particle motion near black hole and cosmological horizons, challenging the idea of a universal Lyapunov bound and showing similar chaos properties in both horizons within holography.

Contribution

It demonstrates that the Lyapunov exponent is related to inaffinity for both horizons and argues against a universal chaos bound in generic spacetimes.

Findings

Lyapunov exponent relates to inaffinity for horizons

De Sitter spacetime exhibits chaos similar to black holes

No universal chaos bound for classical trajectories in generic spacetimes

Abstract

It is known that certain types of particle motion near black hole horizons are chaotic while it has been proposed the existence of a universal bound for their Lyapunov exponent. We discuss the relation between chaos and inaffinity in presence of black hole and cosmological horizons. We argue that although a relation between the Lyapunov exponent and the generalized surface gravity appears naturally, in general there is no reason for the Lyapunov exponent of classical trajectories to be bounded in generic spacetimes with horizon. Moreover, we show that the de Sitter spacetime and cosmological horizons act as a nest of chaos in holography and we find that the Lyapunov exponent of the trajectories is related to the inaffinity in the same way for both cosmological and black hole horizons. This suggests that there is no distinction by the Lyapunov exponent between maximal chaos of black hole and cosmological horizons.