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Cosmic Large-Scale Structure Formation from Newtonian Particle Dynamics

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-01-22 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We present results for the cosmic non-linear density-fluctuation power spectrum based on the analytical formalism developed in [1] which allows us to study cosmic structure formation based on Newtonian particle dynamics in phase-space. This framework provides a field-theory approach to a perturbative solution of the BBGKY-hierarchy where the resulting loop-expansion of the theory introduces a natural truncation criterion. We show that we are able to reproduce structure growth on large scales k0.2hMpc1k \leq 0.2 \mathrm{h}\,\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1} to very high precision while on small and intermediate scales we find deviations of the order of 10%10\% from current numerical simulations. The results strongly suggest that a significant improvement may be achieved by restructuring the perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.2501.11676,
  title  = {Cosmic Large-Scale Structure Formation from Newtonian Particle Dynamics},
  author = {Tristan Daus and Elena Kozlikin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.11676},
  year   = {2025}
}

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36 pages, 3 figures

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