General Relativistic Cosmological N-body Simulations I: time integration

Abstract

This is the first in a series of papers devoted to fully general-relativistic $N$-body simulations applied to late-time cosmology. The purpose of this paper is to present the combination of a numerical relativity scheme, discretization method and time-integration algorithm that provides satisfyingly stable evolution. More precisely, we show that it is able to pass a robustness test and to follow scalar linear modes around an expanding homogeneous and isotropic space-time. Most importantly, it is able to evolve typical cosmological initial conditions on comoving scales down to tenths of megaparsecs with controlled constraint and energy-momentum conservation violations all the way down to the regime of strong inhomogeneity.

arXiv comment28 pages, 16 figures

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