Shadowing high-dimensional Hamiltonian systems: the gravitational n-body problem

Abstract

A {\it shadow} is an exact solution to a chaotic system of equations that remains close to a numerically computed solution for a long time, ending in a {\it glitch}. We study the distribution of shadow durations at low dimension and how shadow durations scale as dimension increases up to 300 in a slightly simplified gravitational n-body system. We find that ``softened'' systems are shadowable for many tens of crossing times even for large n, while in an ``unsoftened'' system each particle encounters glitches independently as a Poisson process, giving shadow durations that scale as 1/n.

4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL

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