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In self-consistent N-body simulations of collisionless systems, gravitational interactions are modified on small scales to remove singularities and simplify the task of numerically integrating the equations of motion. This `gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Joshua E. Barnes

This paper presents a novel approach to numerically describe the interactions between rigid bodies, with a special focus on robotic grasping. Some of the more common approaches used to address such issues rely on satisfaction of a set of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Michael Zechmair , Yannick Morel

This paper presents a novel approach for accelerating n-body simulations by integrating a physics-informed graph neural networks (GNN) with traditional numerical methods. Our method implements a leapfrog-based simulation engine to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Víctor Ramos-Osuna , Alberto Díaz-Álvarez , Raúl Lara-Cabrera

We present a novel method for efficient direct integration of gravitational N-body systems with a large variation in characteristic time scales. The method is based on a recursive and adaptive partitioning of the system based on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-08 Jürgen Jänes , Federico I. Pelupessy , Simon F. Portegies Zwart

Several completely integrable, indeed solvable, Hamiltonian many-body problems are exhibited, characterized by Newtonian equations of motion ("acceleration equal force"), with linear and cubic forces, in N-dimensional space (N being an…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Bruschi , F. Calogero

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

We develop a formalism for General Relativistic N-body simulations in the weak field regime, suitable for cosmological applications. The problem is kept tractable by retaining the metric perturbations to first order, the first derivatives…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-17 Julian Adamek , David Daverio , Ruth Durrer , Martin Kunz

To date, the second-order post-Newtonian (2PN) Hamiltonian has been known in closed analytic form only for systems of up to three point masses. In this paper, we present an analytic expression for the general $N$-body 2PN Hamiltonian in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Felix M. Heinze , Gerhard Schäfer , Bernd Brügmann

$N$-body simulations study the dynamics of $N$ particles under the influence of mutual long-distant forces such as gravity. In practice, $N$-body codes will violate Newton's third law if they use either an approximate Poisson solver or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-01 Qirong Zhu

The integration of the equations of motion in gravitational dynamical systems -- either in our Solar System or for extra-solar planetary system -- being non integrable in the global case, is usually performed by means of numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. Bancelin , D. Hestroffer , W. Thuillot

A systolic algorithm rhythmically computes and passes data through a network of processors. We investigate the performance of systolic algorithms for implementing the gravitational N-body problem on distributed-memory computers. Systolic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. N. Dorband , Marc Hemsendorf , David Merritt

We present a framework for general relativistic N-body simulations in the regime of weak gravitational fields. In this approach, Einstein's equations are expanded in terms of metric perturbations about a Friedmann-Lema\^itre background,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Julian Adamek , Ruth Durrer , Martin Kunz

In this paper, we propose a new approach to the relativistic quantum mechanics for many-body, which is a self-consistent system constructed by juxtaposed but mutually coupled nonlinear Dirac's equations. The classical approximation of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ying-Qiu Gu

In this paper the exact analytical solution of the motion of a rigid body with arbitrary mass distribution is derived in the absence of forces or torques. The resulting expressions are cast into a form where the dependence of the motion on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-31 Ramses van Zon , Jeremy Schofield

Cosmological N-Body simulations have become an essential tool for studying formation of large scale structure. These simulations are computationally challenging even though the available computing power gets better every year. A number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Bagla

The role of gravity is crucial in astrophysics. It determines the evolution of any system, over an enormous range of time and space scales. Astronomical stellar systems as composed by N interacting bodies represent examples of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta

This paper introduces a new difference scheme to the difference equations for N-body type problems. To find the non-collision periodic solutions and generalized periodic solutions in multi-radial symmetric constraint for the N-body type…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Leshun Xu , Yong Li , Menglong Su

There are periodic solutions to the equal-mass three-body (and N-body) problem in Newtonian gravity. The figure-eight solution is one of them. In this paper, we discuss its solution in the first and second post-Newtonian approximations to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano

We describe the astrophysical and numerical basis of N-body simulations, both of collisional stellar systems (dense star clusters and galactic centres) and collisionless stellar dynamics (galaxies and large-scale structure). We explain and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-26 Walter Dehnen , Justin Read

This paper deals with an implicit Newton-like inertial dynamical system governed by a maximally comonotone inclusion problem in a Hilbert space. Under suitable conditions, we establish not only pointwise estimates and integral estimates for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Z. Z. Tan , R. Hu , Y. P. Fang