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Renormalized Perturbation Theory at Field-level: the LSS bootstrap in GridSPT

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-06-10 v1

Abstract

We present a first step toward field-level cosmological inference beyond the standard Λ\LambdaCDM model, focusing on optimizing precision tests in the nonlinear regime of large-scale structure (LSS). As an illustrative case, we study the model-independent ``bootstrap'' coefficient of the second-order perturbation theory (PT) kernel for matter in real space, which we use as a proxy for new physics effects in the nonlinear sector. We discuss in details the ultraviolet (UV) cutoff dependence induced by discretizing fields on a grid, which requires proper renormalization to eliminate grid artifacts. We formulate a Wilsonian perturbative framework in which the evolution from a UV theory defined at a high cutoff Λuv\Lambda_\text{uv} down to lower cutoffs is computed analytically, even beyond the validity of a derivative expansion. Within this framework, we develop an extended version of the GridSPT code incorporating the bootstrap parameterization and demonstrate how cutoff-independent predictions can be achieved through the inclusion of appropriate counterterms. We validate our approach at third- and fifth-order in PT, emphasizing the importance of higher-derivative contributions for unbiased parameter extraction. Our framework is readily extendable to biased tracers and redshift-space distortions.

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@article{arxiv.2506.07105,
  title  = {Renormalized Perturbation Theory at Field-level: the LSS bootstrap in GridSPT},
  author = {Matteo Peron and Takahiro Nishimichi and Massimo Pietroni and Atsushi Taruya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.07105},
  year   = {2025}
}