Stability analysis of circular orbits around a charged BTZ black hole spacetime in a nonlinear electrodynamics model via Lyapunov exponents

Abstract

We investigate the existence and stability of both the timelike and null circular orbits for a (2 + 1)-dimensional charged BTZ black hole in Einstein-nonlinear Maxwell gravity with a negative cosmological constant. The stability analysis of orbits is performed to study the possibility of chaos in geodesic motion for a special case of black hole so-called conformally invariant Maxwell spacetime. The computations of both proper time Lyapunov exponent [Formula: see text] and coordinate time Lyapunov exponent [Formula: see text] are useful to determine the stability of these circular orbits. We observe the behavior of the ratio [Formula: see text] as a function of radius of circular orbits for the timelike case in view of different values of charge parameter. However, for the null case, we calculate only the coordinate time Lyapunov exponent [Formula: see text] as there is no proper time for massless test particles. More specifically, we further analyze the behavior of the ratio of [Formula: see text] to angular frequency [Formula: see text], so-called instability exponent as a function of charge [Formula: see text] and parameter related to cosmological constant [Formula: see text] for the particular values of other parameters.