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The self-gravitating systems are formed by particles interacting through gravity. They describe structure formation in the universe. As a consequence of the long range interaction of gravity, they are inhomogeneous even at thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Siebert

This work is devoted to the thermodynamics of gravitational clustering, a collective phenomenon with a great relevance in the $N$-body cosmological problem. We study a classical self-gravitating gas of identical non-relativistic particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-03 F. Tello-Ortiz , L. Velazquez

The kinetic approach to the formation of the filaments in the large-scale matter distribution in the Universe is considered within the Vlasov formalism. The structures arise due to the self-consistent dynamics, along with the repulsive term…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 V. G. Gurzadyan , N. N. Fimin , V. M. Chechetkin

Caustics-envelopes formed by the trajectories of fluid particles-arise in proposed dynamical extensions for shell-crossing singularities occurring in the Einstein-dust system. In this study, a local existence result is established,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 David Bick

A covariant causal set (c-causet) is a causal set that is invariant under labeling. Such causets are well-behaved and have a rigid geometry that is determined by a sequence of positive integers called the shell sequence. We first consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-26 Stan Gudder

Planetary systems form in gas-dust protoplanetary discs via the growth of solid bodies. In this paper, we show that the most intriguing stage of such growth --- namely, the transformation of 1-10 m boulders into kilometre-sized…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Valeriy N. Snytnikov , Olga P. Stoyanovskaya

Clustering of a perfect fluid does not lead to the generation of vorticity. It is the collisionless nature of dark matter, inducing velocity dispersion and shell crossing, which is at the origin of cosmological vorticity generation. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Goran Jelic-Cizmek , Francesca Lepori , Julian Adamek , Ruth Durrer

The cosmic web is a complex spatial pattern of walls, filaments, cluster nodes and underdense void regions. It emerged through gravitational amplification from the Gaussian primordial density field. Here we infer analytical expressions for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 Job Feldbrugge , Johan Hidding , Rien van de Weygaert

Stars form from molecular gas under complex conditions influenced by multiple competing physical mechanisms, such as gravity, turbulence, and magnetic fields. However, accurately identifying the fraction of gas actively involved in star…

An attractive and simple hypothesis for the formation of large-scale structure is that it developed by gravitational instability from primordial fluctuations with an initially Gaussian probability distribution. Non-linear gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ewa Luiza Lokas , Roman Juszkiewicz , David Weinberg , Francois Bouchet

Models of structure formation in the universe postulate that matter distributions observed today in galaxy catalogs arise, through a complex non-linear dynamics, by gravitational evolution from a very uniform initial state. Dark matter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Luciano Pietronero , Francesco Sylos Labini

The large-scale structure in the Universe is believed to arise out of small random density perturbations generated in the very early Universe, that are amplified by gravity. Large and usually intricate N-body simulations are typically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Sergei F. Shandarin , B. S. Sathyaprakash

We study particle dynamics in self-gravitating gaseous discs with a simple cooling law prescription via two-dimensional simulations in the shearing sheet approximation. It is well known that structures arising in the gaseous component of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 P. G. Gibbons , G. R. Mamatsashvili , W. K. M. Rice

We investigate the formation of spatial structure in dense, self-gravitating particle systems such as Saturn's B-ring through local $N$-body simulations to clarify the intrinsic physics based on individual particle motion. In such a system,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. Daisaka , S. Ida

We study particle dynamics in local two-dimensional simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs with a simple cooling law. It is well known that the structure which arises in the gaseous component of the disc due to a gravitational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. G. Gibbons , W. K. M. Rice , G. R. Mamatsashvili

In the framework of the theory of scale relativity, we suggest a solution to the cosmological problem of the formation and evolution of gravitational structures on many scales. This approach is based on the giving up of the hypothesis of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Daniel da Rocha , Laurent Nottale

The cosmic large scale structure encodes the formation and evolution of a weblike network of dark matter and galaxies within the Universe. The cosmological information is wrapped up in non-Gaussian statistics requiring characterisation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Alex Gough

Numerical simulations of self-gravitating systems are generally based on N-body codes, which solve the equations of motion of a large number of interacting particles. This approach suffers from poor statistical sampling in regions of low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Giovanni Manfredi , Jean-Louis Rouet , Bruce Miller , Yui Shiozawa

Production of gravitational vacuum defects and their contribution to the energy density of our Universe are discussed. These topological microstructures (defects) could be produced in the result of creation of the Universe from "nothing"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-03 V. Burdyuzha , G. Vereshkov , J. Pacheco

We investigate the formation process of planetesimals from the dust layer by the gravitational instability in the gas disk using local $N$-body simulations. The gas is modeled as a background laminar flow. We study the formation process of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Shugo Michikoshi , Eiichiro Kokubo , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka
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