Symmetry (May 2021)

Raychaudhuri Equation, Geometrical Flows and Geometrical Entropy

  • Lawrence Paul Horwitz,
  • Vishnu S Namboothiri,
  • Gautham Varma K,
  • Asher Yahalom,
  • Yosef Strauss,
  • Jacob Levitan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13060957
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 6
p. 957

Abstract

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The Raychaudhuri equation is derived by assuming geometric flow in space–time M of n+1 dimensions. The equation turns into a harmonic oscillator form under suitable transformations. Thereby, a relation between geometrical entropy and mean geodesic deviation is established. This has a connection to chaos theory where the trajectories diverge exponentially. We discuss its application to cosmology and black holes. Thus, we establish a connection between chaos theory and general relativity.

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