Suppression of matter density growth at scales exceeding the cosmic screening length
arXiv:2307.06920 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2024/05/083
Abstract
One of the main objectives of modern cosmology is to explain the origin and evolution of cosmic structures at different scales. The principal force responsible for the formation of such structures is gravity. In a general relativistic framework, we have shown that matter density contrasts do not grow over time at scales exceeding the cosmic screening length, which corresponds to a cosmological scale of the order of two to three gigaparsecs at the present time, at which gravitational interactions exhibit an exponential cut-off. This is a purely relativistic effect. To demonstrate the suppression of density growth, we have performed N-body simulations in a box with a comoving size of and obtained the power spectrum of the mass density contrast. We have shown that it becomes independent of time for scales beyond the cosmic screening length as a clear manifestation of the cosmic screening effect.
9 pages, 3 figures. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. Neither SISSA Medialab Srl nor IOP Publishing Ltd is responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/05/083
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