Numerical verification of the microscopic time reversibility of Newton's equations of motion: Fighting exponential divergence

Numerical solutions to Newtons equations of motion for chaotic self gravitating systems of more than 2 bodies are often regarded to be irreversible. This is due to the exponential growth of errors introduced by the integration scheme and the numerical round-off in the least significant figure. This...

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Main Author: Portegies Zwart, Simon (author)
Other Authors: Boekholt, Tjarda (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10773/22954
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/22954