Nonintegrability of the Zipoy-Voorhees metric

The low frequency gravitational wave detectors like the evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna/New Gravitational Wave Observatory (eLISA/NGO) will give us the opportunity to test whether the supermassive compact objects lying at the centers of galaxies are indeed Kerr black holes. One way to do such a test is to compare the gravitational wave signals with templates of perturbed black hole spacetimes, the so-called bumpy black hole spacetimes. The Zipoy-Voorhees (ZV) spacetime (known also as the $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ spacetime) can be included in the bumpy black hole family, since it can be considered as a perturbation of the Schwarzschild spacetime background. Several authors have suggested that the ZV metric corresponds to an integrable system. Contrary to this integrability conjecture, the present article shows by numerical examples that, in general, ZV belongs to the family of nonintegrable systems.

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