The evolution of galaxy clusters can be affected by the repulsion described by the cosmological constant. This conclusion is reached within the modified weak-field General Relativity approach where the cosmological constant Λ enables to describe the common nature of the dark matter and the dark energy. Geometrical methods of theory of dynamical systems and the Ricci curvature criterion are used to reveal the difference in the instability properties of galaxy clusters which determine their evolutionary paths. Namely, it is shown that the clusters determined by the gravity with Λ-repulsion tend to become even more unstable than those powered only by Newtonian gravity, the effect to be felt at cosmological time scales.PACS. 98.80.-k Cosmology
IntroductionThe nature of the dark sector -dark matter and dark energy -remains a major puzzle for fundamental physics in spite of intense observational, experimental and theoretical investigations of the last decades. The recently sharpened H-tension, i.e. the discrepancy between the Hubble constant determinations from Planck's data and observations at lower redshift [1,2], activated the discussions regarding beyond ΛCDM and new physics [3,4].The modified weak-field General Relativity (GR) provides one of recent approaches to describing the dark sector [5,6,7]. That modification is based on Newton's theorem on the identity of gravity of a sphere and of a point mass situated in its center and enables to conclude on the common nature of the dark matter and dark energy, both being described by the cosmological constant [6,7]. That approach also offers a solution to the H-tension [8]. The cosmological constant Λ within that approach acts as a fundamental constant along with the gravitational constant G [9], with consequences also for the Conformal Cyclic cosmology [10]. The non-particle nature of the dark matter is concluded in [11].If the gravitational interaction at the galaxy cluster scales is defined not only by an attracting force but also by a repulsive force due to the cosmological constant, then the latter can influence the evolution of galaxy clusters. Analogous modified gravity effects are among the discussed ones with respect to various astrophysical systems, from celestial mechanical scales [12] to those of cosmological structure formation [13], whereas the dedicated experimental tests of General Relativity (e.g. [14,15]) are still not reachable to those effects. Other testing opportunities are provided by the lensing of galaxies [16,17].Here we will try to reveal a possible difference in the dynamical evolution of two types of galaxy clusters, those determined by usual Newtonian gravity (standard N-body problem) and those by modified gravity with the repulsion term. We use geometrical methods of the theory of dynamical systems [18,19] first applied to gravitational N-body dynamics in [20] to describe their chaos and relaxation; for further application of those methods in General Relativity see [21,22]. The Ricci curvature criterion of relative instability, that we use...