Clustering in N-Body gravitating systems

Details Clustering in N-Body gravitating systems Clustering in N-Body gravitating systems

2001-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111472v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

6 pages, 5 figures. To be published on Physica A

Scientific paper

Self-gravitating systems have acquired growing interest in statistical mechanics, due to the peculiarities of the 1/r potential. Indeed, the usual approach of statistical mechanics cannot be applied to a system of many point particles interacting with the Newtonian potential, because of (i) the long range nature of the 1/r potential and of (ii) the divergence at the origin. We study numerically the evolutionary behavior of self-gravitating systems with periodical boundary conditions, starting from simple initial conditions. We do not consider in the simulations additional effects as the (cosmological) metric expansion and/or sophisticated initial conditions, since we are interested whether and how gravity by itself can produce clustered structures. We are able to identify well defined correlation properties during the evolution of the system, which seem to show a well defined thermodynamic limit, as opposed to the properties of the ``equilibrium state''. Gravity-induced clustering also shows interesting self-similar characteristics.

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