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Phys. Rev. D 41, 1983–1988 (1990)

Onset of chaos in time-dependent spherically symmetric SU(2) Yang-Mills theory

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Tetsuji Kawabe
Physics Department, Kyushu Institute of Design, Shiobaru, Fukuoka 815, Japan

Shonosuke Ohta
College of General Education, Kyushu University, Ropponmatsu, Fukuoka 810, Japan

Received 11 September 1989; published in the issue dated 15 March 1990

The chaotic nature of time-dependent, spherically symmetric solutions of SU(2) Yang-Mills equations is numerically studied. We show that the phase space near the Wu-Yang magnetic-monopole solution is intrinsically not only ergodic but also chaotic by measuring the induction period, the equal-time correlation, and the maximal Lyapunov exponents.

© 1990 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.41.1983
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10.1103/PhysRevD.41.1983
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