Claudio Llinares, David Mota
Several extensions of General Relativity and high energy physics include scalar fields as extra degrees of freedom. In the search for predictions in the non-linear regime of cosmological evolution, the community makes use of numerical simulations in which the quasi-static limit is assumed when solving the equation of motion of the scalar field. In this Letter, we propose for the first time a method to solve the full equations of motion for scalar degrees of freedom. We run cosmological simulations which track the full time and space evolution of the scalar field, and find striking differences with respect to the commonly used quasi-static approximation. This novel procedure reveals new physical properties of the scalar field and reveals concealed astrophysical phenomena which were hidden in the old approach.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1774
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