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Lagrangian space consistency relation for large scale structure

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-10-07 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Consistency relations, which relate the squeezed limit of an (N+1)-point correlation function to an N-point function, are non-perturbative symmetry statements that hold even if the associated high momentum modes are deep in the nonlinear regime and astrophysically complex. Recently, Kehagias & Riotto and Peloso & Pietroni discovered a consistency relation applicable to large scale structure. We show that this can be recast into a simple physical statement in Lagrangian space: that the squeezed correlation function (suitably normalized) vanishes. This holds regardless of whether the correlation observables are at the same time or not, and regardless of whether multiple-streaming is present. The simplicity of this statement suggests that an analytic understanding of large scale structure in the nonlinear regime may be particularly promising in Lagrangian space.

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@article{arxiv.1502.06980,
  title  = {Lagrangian space consistency relation for large scale structure},
  author = {Bart Horn and Lam Hui and Xiao Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06980},
  year   = {2015}
}

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19 pages, no figures

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