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Baryon Acoustic Peak and the Squeezed Limit Bispectrum

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-04-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In the non-relativistic regime, pertinent to the large scale structure of the Universe, the leading effect of a long-wavelength perturbation δ(λL)\delta(\lambda_L) on short distance physics is a uniform acceleration λLδ(λL)\propto \lambda_L \delta(\lambda_L). Typically, this has no effect on statistical averages at equal time since a uniform acceleration results in a uniform translation -- a reasoning that has been formalized as a "consistency condition" on the cosmological correlation functions. This naive expectation fails in the presence of the baryon acoustic feature provided λL<BAO\lambda_L < \ell_{\rm BAO}. We derive the squeezed limit of correlation functions in this regime.

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@article{arxiv.1412.3796,
  title  = {Baryon Acoustic Peak and the Squeezed Limit Bispectrum},
  author = {Mehrdad Mirbabayi and Marko Simonović and Matias Zaldarriaga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.3796},
  year   = {2015}
}

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