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The gravitational many-body problem is a problem concerning the movement of bodies, which are interacting through gravity. However, solving the gravitational many-body problem with a CPU takes a lot of time due to O(N^2) computational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-24 Kazuki Fujiwara , Naohito Nakasato

We present FlowPM, a Particle-Mesh (PM) cosmological N-body code implemented in Mesh-TensorFlow for GPU-accelerated, distributed, and differentiable simulations. We implement and validate the accuracy of a novel multi-grid scheme based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-23 Chirag Modi , Francois Lanusse , Uros Seljak

Fast summation refers to a family of techniques for approximating $O(N^2)$ sums in $O(N\log{N})$ or $O(N)$ time. These techniques have traditionally found wide use in astrophysics and electrostatics in calculating the forces in a $N$-body…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Anthony Chen , Christiane Jablonowski

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) can speed up the numerical solution of various problems in astrophysics including the dynamical evolution of stellar systems; the performance gain can be more than a factor 100 compared to using a Central…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-28 Mario Spera

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

The theory of Nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF) has seen a rapid development over the recent three decades. Applications include diverse correlated many-body systems in and out of equilibrium. Very good agreement with experiments and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-02 Michael Bonitz , Jan-Philip Joost , Christopher Makait , Erik Schroedter , Tim Karsberger , Karsten Balzer

The two body problem in a scalar theory of gravity is investigated. We focus on the closest theory to General Relativity (GR), namely Nordstr\"om's theory of gravity (1913). The gravitational field can be exactly solved for any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean-Philippe Bruneton

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

Since its first formulation in 1983, Milgromian dynamics (MOND) has been very successful in predicting the gravitational potential of galaxies from the distribution of baryons alone, including general scaling relations and detailed rotation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Fabian Lüghausen , Benoit Famaey , Pavel Kroupa

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

We present a new parallel code for computing the dynamical evolution of collisional N-body systems with up to N~10^7 particles. Our code is based on the the Henon Monte Carlo method for solving the Fokker-Planck equation, and makes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bharath Pattabiraman , Stefan Umbreit , Wei-Keng Liao , Alok Choudhary , Vassiliki Kalogera , Gokhan Memik , Frederic A. Rasio

We present sCOLA -- an extension of the N-body COmoving Lagrangian Acceleration (COLA) method to the spatial domain. Similar to the original temporal-domain COLA, sCOLA is an N-body method for solving for large-scale structure in a frame…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-02 Svetlin Tassev , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Matias Zaldarriaga

We present a new massively parallel code for N-body and cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of modified gravity models. The code employs a multigrid-accelerated Newton-Gauss-Seidel relaxation solver on an adaptive mesh to efficiently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ewald Puchwein , Marco Baldi , Volker Springel

We present a real-space adaptive-coordinate method, which combines the advantages of the finite-difference approach with the accuracy and flexibility of the adaptive coordinate method. The discretized Kohn-Sham equations are written in…

mtrl-th · Physics 2009-10-28 Francois Gygi , Giulia Galli

This study presents a general alternative scheme of the procedure and necessary conditions for solving the $n$-body problem. The presented solution is not a solution of the classical problem, where the initial conditions of positions and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Pawel Wojda

Research on strongly correlated electron systems faces a fundamental challenge due to the complex nature of intrinsic many-body correlations. A key strategy to address this challenge lies in advancing experimental methods that can directly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Yuehua Su , Guoya Zhang , Chao Zhang , Dezhong Cao

Nonlinear N-body integrable Hamiltonian systems, where N is an arbitrary number, attract the attention of mathematical physicists for the last several decades, following the discovery of some number of these systems. This paper presents a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 V. Danilov , S. Nagaitsev

We present some non-standard approaches to the N-body problem in an attempt to overcome its epistemological limits. We provide, in a preliminary way, not-ordinary insights and breakthroughs.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Damgov , D. Gotchev , E. Spedicato , A. Del Popolo

First-order variational equations are widely used in N-body simulations to study how nearby trajectories diverge from one another. These allow for efficient and reliable determinations of chaos indicators such as the Maximal Lyapunov…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hanno Rein , Daniel Tamayo

Given a structure made up of n sites connected by b bars, the problem of recognizing which subsets of sites form rigid units is not a trivial one, because of the non-local character of rigidity in central-force systems. Even though this is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Cristian F. Moukarzel