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Screening vs. gevolution: in chase of a perfect cosmological simulation code

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-02-09 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We compare two competing relativistic approaches to the N-body simulation of the Universe large-scale structure. To this end, employing the corresponding alternative computer codes ("gevolution" and "screening"), we conduct a series of cosmological simulations in boxes of different sizes and calculate the power spectra of the scalar perturbation Φ\Phi, the frame-dragging vector potential B{\bf B} and the difference between scalar modes χ=ΦΨ\chi=\Phi-\Psi. We demonstrate that the corresponding power spectra are in very good agreement between the compared schemes. For example, the relative difference of the power spectra for Φ\Phi is 0.04% maximum. Since the perturbed Einstein equations have much simpler form in the screening approach, the simulation with this code consumes less computational time, saving almost 40% of CPU hours.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2106.07638,
  title  = {Screening vs. gevolution: in chase of a perfect cosmological simulation code},
  author = {Maxim Eingorn and A. Emrah Yukselci and Alexander Zhuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.07638},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

16 pages, 3 figures

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