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 arXiv : 0711.2219
 Gravitational dynamics of an infinite shuffled lattice: early time evolution and universality of non-linear correlationsBaertschiger T., Joyce M., Labini F., Marcos B.Physical Review E 77 (2008) 5 - http://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00282372
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Gravitational dynamics of an infinite shuffled lattice: early time evolution and universality of non-linear correlations
T. Baertschiger, M. Joyce1, F. Labini, B. Marcos
 1 : LPNHE - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies http://www-lpnhep.in2p3.fr CNRS : UMR7585 – IN2P3 – Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) - Paris VI – Université Paris VII - Paris Diderot Barre 12-22, 1er étage 4 Place Jussieu 75252 Paris Cedex 05 France
In two recent articles a detailed study has been presented of the out of equilibrium dynamics of an infinite system of self-gravitating points initially located on a randomly perturbed lattice. In this article we extend the treatment of the early time phase during which strong non-linear correlations first develop, prior to the onset of self-similar'' scaling in the two point correlation function. We establish more directly, using appropriate modifications of the numerical integration, that the development of these correlations can be well described by an approximation of the evolution in two phases: a first perturbative phase in which particles' displacements are small compared to the lattice spacing, and a subsequent phase in which particles interact only with their nearest neighbor. For the range of initial amplitudes considered we show that the first phase can be well approximated as a transformation of the perturbed lattice configuration into a Poisson distribution at the relevant scales. This appears to explain the universality'' of the spatial dependence of the asymptotic non-linear clustering observed from both shuffled lattice and Poisson initial conditions.

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2008
 Physical Review E (Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys) Publisher American Physical Society ISSN 1539-3755
77
5
© 2008 The American Physical Society

11 pages, 11 figures, shortened introductory sections and other minor modifications, version to appear in Phys. Rev. E
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