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We introduce FastPM, a highly-scalable approximated particle mesh N-body solver, which implements the particle mesh (PM) scheme enforcing correct linear displacement (1LPT) evolution via modified kick and drift factors. Employing a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-14 Yu Feng , Man-Yat Chu , Uros Seljak , Patrick McDonald

This paper presents a fast, economical particle-multiple-mesh N-body code optimized for large-N modelling of collisionless dynamical processes, such as black-hole wandering or bar-halo interactions, occurring within isolated galaxies. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-07 John Magorrian

Newtonian N-body simulations have been employed successfully over the past decades for the simulation of the cosmological large-scale structure. Such simulations usually ignore radiation perturbations (photons and massless neutrinos) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-07 Julian Adamek , Jacob Brandbyge , Christian Fidler , Steen Hannestad , Cornelius Rampf , Thomas Tram

We investigate a hybrid numerical algorithm aimed at the large-scale cosmological N-body simulation for the on-going and the future high precious sky surveys. It makes use of a truncated Fast Multiple Method (FMM) for short-range gravity,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Qiao Wang

N-body simulations are essential for understanding the formation and evolution of structure in the Universe. However, the discrete nature of these simulations affects their accuracy when modelling collisionless systems. We introduce a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Oliver Hahn , Raul E. Angulo

We have developed a simulation code with the techniques which enhance both spatial and time resolution of the PM method for which the spatial resolution is restricted by the spacing of structured mesh. The adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Hideki Yahagi , Yuzuru Yoshii

Fitting a theoretical model to experimental data in a Bayesian manner using Markov chain Monte Carlo typically requires one to evaluate the model thousands (or millions) of times. When the model is a slow-to-compute physics simulation,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-25 Steven Stetzler , Michael Grosskopf , Earl Lawrence

By using observations of the Hulse-Taylor pulsar we constrain the gravitational wave (GW) speed to the level of $10^{-2}$. We apply this result to scalar-tensor theories that generalize Galileon 4 and 5 models, which display anomalous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-17 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Federico Piazza , Hermano Velten

The gravitational N-body simulation in the Solar system was performed using different parallel approaches with the comparisons in the computational times and speed-up values being carried out under different model sizes and the number of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-03 Tailin Zhu

Self-consistent ${\it N}$-body simulations of modified gravity models are a key ingredient to obtain rigorous constraints on deviations from General Relativity using large-scale structure observations. This paper provides the first detailed…

We investigate nonlinear structure formation in Horndeski gravity with a luminal gravitational wave speed ($c_T = 1$) using the spherical collapse model incorporating Vainshtein screening. We compute the critical and virial overdensities…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Dani de Boe , Mattia Pantiri , Gen Ye , Alessandra Silvestri

Gravity inversion allows us to constrain the interior mass distribution of a planetary body using the observed shape, rotation, and gravity. Traditionally, techniques developed for gravity inversion can be divided into Monte Carlo methods,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Pasquale Tricarico

We use N-body simulations to study the statistics of massive halos and redshift space distortions for theories with a standard \Lambda CDM expansion history and a galileon-type scalar field. The extra scalar field increases the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-30 Mark Wyman , Elise Jennings , Marcos Lima

The N-body problem is a classic problem involving a system of N discrete bodies mutually interacting in a dynamical system. At any moment in time there are N*(N - 1)/2 such interactions occurring. This scaling as N^2 leads to computational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Alexander Brandt

The statistics of dark matter halos is an essential component of understanding the nonlinear evolution in modified gravity cosmology. Based on a series of modified gravity N-body simulations, we investigate the halo mass function,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-21 Youcai Zhang , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Weiguang Cui

We compare void size and clustering statistics for nDGP and $f(R)$ gravity models and GR using N-body simulations. We show how it is critical to consider the statistics derived from mock galaxy catalogs rather than the dark matter halos…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Christopher Wilson , Rachel Bean

Extending 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to 4D physical simulation remains challenging. Based on the Material Point Method (MPM), existing methods either rely on manual parameter tuning or distill dynamics from video diffusion models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yikun Ma , Yiqing Li , Jingwen Ye , Zhongkai Wu , Weidong Zhang , Lin Gao , Zhi Jin

A major aim of cosmological surveys is to test deviations from the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, but the full scientific value of these surveys will only be realised through efficient simulation methods that keep up with the increasing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Yash Gondhalekar , Sownak Bose , Baojiu Li , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro

Mass modelling of spherical systems through internal motions is hampered by the mass/velocity anisotropy (VA) degeneracy inherent in the Jeans equation, as well as the lack of techniques that are both fast and adaptable to realistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-25 Gary A. Mamon , Andrea Biviano , Gwenaël Boué

The Variational Gaussian wavepacket (VGW) method is an alternative to Path Integral Monte-Carlo (PIMC) for the computation of thermodynamic properties of many-body systems at thermal equilibrium. It provides a direct access to the thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ionuţ Georgescu , Vladimir A. Mandelshtam