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Infrared divergence of pure Einstein gravity contributions to cosmological density power spectrum

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2009-09-02 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We probe the pure Einstein's gravity contributions to the second-order density power spectrum. In the small-scale, we discover that the Einstein's gravity contribution is negligibly small. This guarantees that Newton's gravity is sufficient to handle the baryon acoustic oscillation scale. In the large scale, however, we discover that the Einstein's gravity contribution to the second-order power spectrum dominates the linear-order power spectrum. Thus, pure Einstein gravity contribution appearing in the third-order perturbation leads to an infrared divergence in the power spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.0902.4285,
  title  = {Infrared divergence of pure Einstein gravity contributions to cosmological density power spectrum},
  author = {Hyerim Noh and Donghui Jeong and Jai-chan Hwang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4285},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Changed contents, to appear in Physical Review Letters