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Simulating Rotating Newtonian Universes

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-12-03 v1 Computational Physics

Abstract

We present the results of a novel type of numerical simulation that realizes a rotating Universe with a shear-free, rigid body rotation inspired by a G\"{o}del-like metric. We run cosmological simulations of unperturbed glasses with various degrees of rotation in the Einstein-de Sitter and the Λ\LambdaCDM cosmologies. To achieve this, we use the StePS N-body code capable of simulating the infinite Universe, overcoming the technical obstacles of classical toroidal (periodic) topologies that would otherwise prevent us from running such simulations. Results show a clear anisotropy between the polar and equatorial expansion rates with more than 1%1\% deviation from the isotropic case for maximal rotation without closed timeline curves within the horizon, ω0103\omega_{0} \approx 10^{-3} Gyr1^{-1}; a considerable effect in the era of precision cosmology.

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@article{arxiv.2412.00594,
  title  = {Simulating Rotating Newtonian Universes},
  author = {Balázs Pál and Tze Goh and Gábor Rácz and István Szapudi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.00594},
  year   = {2024}
}
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