Relativistic second-order initial conditions for simulations of large-scale structure

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/04/001zbMATH Open1504.83032arXiv2110.11249OpenAlexW3207036446MaRDI QIDQ5099231FDOQ5099231

Authors: Julian Adamek, Juan Calles, Thomas Montandon, J. Noreña, Clément Stahl 

Publication date: 31 August 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Relativistic corrections to the evolution of structure can be used to test general relativity on cosmological scales. They are also a well-known systematic contamination in the search for a primordial non-Gaussian signal. We present a numerical framework to generate RELativistic second-order Initial Conditions ($extttRELIC$) based on a generic (not necessarily separable) second-order kernel for the density perturbations. In order to keep the time complexity manageable we introduce a scale cut that separates long and short scales, and neglect the "short-short" coupling that will eventually be swamped by uncontrollable higher-order effects. To test our approach, we use the second-order Einstein-Boltzmann code $extttSONG$ to provide the numerical second-order kernel in a $Lambda$CDM model, and we demonstrate that the realisations generated by $extttRELIC$ reproduce the bispectra well whenever at least one of the scales is a "long" mode. We then present a generic algorithm that takes a perturbed density field as an inputand provides particle initial data that matches this input to arbitrary order in perturbations for a given particle-mesh scheme. We implement this algorithm in the relativistic N-body code $extttgevolution$ to demonstrate how our framework can be used to set precise initial conditions for cosmological simulations of large-scale structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11249

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zbMATH Keywords

non-Gaussianitycosmological simulationscosmological perturbation theory in GR and beyond

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Set functions and measures and integrals in infinite-dimensional spaces (Wiener measure, Gaussian measure, etc.) (28C20) Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-10)

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