Cosmological simulations of structure formation and the Vlasov equation

DOI10.1016/J.CNSNS.2007.05.014MaRDI QIDQ2383072zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Joyce

Publication date 5 October 2007

Published in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.1453

zbMATH Keywords

Vlasov-Poisson systemcosmological \(N\)-body simulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In cosmology numerical simulations of structure formation are now of central importance, as they are the sole instrument for providing detailed predictions of current cosmological models for a whole class of important constraining observations. These simulations are essentially molecular dynamics simulations of N (>> 1), now up to of order several billion) particles interacting through their self-gravity. While their aim is to produce the Vlasov limit, which describes the underlying (``cold dark matter) models, the degree to which they actually do produce this limit is currently understood, at best, only very qualitatively, and there is an acknowledged need for ``a theory of discreteness errors. In this talk I will describe, for non-cosmologists, both the simulations and the underlying theoretical models, and will then focus on the issue of discreteness, describing some recent progress in addressing this question quantitatively.

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