A Topological Investigation of the Cosmic Web Formation

Eva Staikou; Marcos Pellejero

doi:10.2218/esjs.9988

Authors

Eva Maria Staikou University of Glasgow https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8098-1578
Marcos Pellejero School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4680-7275

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2218/esjs.9988

Keywords:

Cosmology, Cosmic Web, N-body Simulations

Abstract

N-body simulations of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe (the Cosmic Web) were run while altering attractive gravity laws and initial conditions, in order to infer which properties of the universe are revealed by its current large-scale topology. The Cosmic Web was found to develop regardless of the gravitational alteration made. Significantly altering the initial conditions from Gaussian distribution ones was found to eliminate the Cosmic Web. Thus, we require small random perturbations in otherwise uniform initial conditions in the early universe, under an attractive gravitational force, for the Cosmic Web to develop.

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