Komatsu, Nobuyoshi; Kiwata, Takahiro; Kimura, Shigeo - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 10, pp. 2267-2278
Numerical irreversibility due to round-off errors appearing in self-gravitating N-body systems is investigated by means of molecular dynamics methods. As a typical self-gravitating system, a closed spherical system consisting of N point-particles, which are interacting through the Plummer...