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Cosmological structure formation with negative mass

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-12-11 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We construct a family of models with negative gravitational mass in the context of Newtonian gravity. We focus in particular on a model that reproduces the features of the so-called Dirac-Milne universe, a matter-antimatter symmetric universe that was recently proposed as an alternative cosmological scenario [A. Benoit-Levy and G. Chardin, A&A 537, A78 (2012)]. We perform one-dimensional N-body simulations of these negative-mass models for an expanding universe and study the associated formation of gravitational structures. The similarities and differences with the standard cosmological model are highlighted and discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1804.03067,
  title  = {Cosmological structure formation with negative mass},
  author = {Giovanni Manfredi and Jean-Louis Rouet and Bruce Miller and Gabriel Chardin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.03067},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Equation 14 has been corrected (NB: typo in the published PRD version)

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