A Large Deviation Principle at play in Large-Scale Structure cosmology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2016-09-21 v1
Abstract
We present an application of Large Deviation Theory to the problem of structure growth on large-scale structure cosmology. Starting from gaussian distributed overdensities on concentric spherical shells, we show that a Large Deviation Principle holds for the densities on the corresponding shells after gravitational evolution if no shell-crossing happens. As consequences of the Large Deviation Principle we obtain the cumulant generating function for the non-linear densities, and present formulae to compute the cumulant generating function for general window functions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1511.08641,
title = {A Large Deviation Principle at play in Large-Scale Structure cosmology},
author = {Francis Bernardeau and Paulo Reimberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08641},
year = {2016}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures