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Perturbation Theory Remixed: Improved Nonlinearity Modeling beyond Standard Perturbation Theory

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-06-13 v1

Abstract

We present a novel nnEPT (nnth-order Eulerian Perturbation Theory) scheme to model the nonlinear density field by the summation up to nnth-order density fields in perturbation theory. The obtained analytical power spectrum shows excellent agreement with the results from all 20 Dark-Quest suites of NN-body simulations spreading over a broad range of cosmologies. The agreement is much better than the conventional two-loop Standard Perturbation Theory and would reach out to kmax0.4 h/Mpck_{\rm max}\simeq 0.4~h/{\rm Mpc} at z=3z=3 for the best-fitting Planck cosmology, without any free parameters. The method can accelerate the forward modeling of the non-linear cosmological density field, an indispensable probe of cosmic mysteries such as inflation, dark energy, and dark matter.

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@article{arxiv.2209.00033,
  title  = {Perturbation Theory Remixed: Improved Nonlinearity Modeling beyond Standard Perturbation Theory},
  author = {Zhenyuan Wang and Donghui Jeong and Atsushi Taruya and Takahiro Nishimichi and Ken Osato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00033},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

9 pages, 4 figures; to be submitted to PRL

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