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A new approach to cosmological structure formation with massive neutrinos. (English) Zbl 1542.83051

Summary: We show how Newtonian cosmological simulations can be employed to investigate the non-linear evolution of two particle species in a relativistic context. We discuss the application for massive neutrinos and other multi-species systems such as Cold Dark Matter (CDM) plus baryons or Warm Dark Matter (WDM) . We propose a method that allows us to perform simulations including massive neutrinos and general relativistic effects at almost the same computational cost as ordinary CDM only N-body simulations, employing tailor-made initial conditions and a dictionary for the interpretation of the simulation output.

MSC:

83F05 Relativistic cosmology
85A40 Astrophysical cosmology
83C56 Dark matter and dark energy