Integrability lost: Chaotic dynamics of classical strings on a confining holographic background |
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Authors: | Pallab Basu Diptarka Das Archisman Ghosh |
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Institution: | Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA |
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Abstract: | It is known that classical string dynamics on pure AdS5×S5 is integrable and plays an important role in solvability. This is a deep and central issue in holography. Here we investigate similar classical integrability for a more realistic confining background and provide a negative answer. The dynamics of a class of simple string configurations on AdS soliton background can be mapped to the dynamics of a set of non-linearly coupled oscillators. In a suitable limit of small fluctuations we discuss a quasi-periodic analytic solution of the system. Numerics indicates chaotic behavior as the fluctuations are not small. Integrability implies the existence of a regular foliation of the phase space by invariant manifolds. Our numerics shows how this nice foliation structure is eventually lost due to chaotic motion. We also verify a positive Lyapunov index for chaotic orbits. Our dynamics is roughly similar to other known non-integrable coupled oscillator systems like Hénon–Heiles equations. |
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Keywords: | Chaos Non-integrability Holography String theory |
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