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The general relativistic non--linear dynamics of a self--gravitating collisionless fluid with vanishing vorticity is studied in synchronous and comoving -- i.e. {\em Lagrangian} -- coordinates. Writing the equations in terms of the metric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabino Matarrese

We present predictions for redshift-space peculiar velocity statistics in the Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations of the effective field theory (EFT) of large-scale structure. We compute 2-point pairwise velocity statistics up to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Shi-Fan Chen , Cullan Howlett , Yan Lai , Fei Qin

We derive the equations of linear cosmological perturbations for the general Lagrangian density $f (R,\phi, X)/2+L_c$, where $R$ is a Ricci scalar, $\phi$ is a scalar field, and $X=-(\nabla \phi)^2/2$ is a field kinetic energy. We take into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-12 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Mukohyama , Shinji Tsujikawa

We present the extension of the effective field theory framework to the mildly non-linear scales. The effective field theory approach has been successfully applied to the late time cosmic acceleration phenomenon and it has been shown to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-20 Noemi Frusciante , Georgios Papadomanolakis

In the previous paper [arXiv:2210.10435], the nonlinear perturbation theory of cosmological density field is generalized to include the tensor-valued bias of astronomical objects, such as spins and shapes of galaxies and any other tensors…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Takahiko Matsubara

We consider the gravitational collapse of collisionless matter seeded by three crossed sine waves with various amplitudes, also in the presence of a linear external tidal field. We explore two theoretical methods that are more efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 Cornelius Rampf , Shohei Saga , Atsushi Taruya , Stéphane Colombi

The evolution of probability distribution functions (PDFs) of continuous density, velocity and velocity derivatives ( deformation tensor) fields in the theory of cosmological gravitational instability are considered. We show that in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lev Kofman

We rigorously derive weakly nonlinear relation between cosmic density and velocity fields up to third order in perturbation theory. The density field is described by the mass density contrast, $\de$. The velocity field is described by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Michal J. Chodorowski , Ewa L. Lokas

We review the formalism and applications of non-linear perturbation theory (PT) to understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe. We first discuss the dynamics of gravitational instability, from the linear to the non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Bernardeau , S. Colombi , E. Gaztanaga , R. Scoccimarro

In a mean-field approximation within Kinetic Field Theory, it is possible to derive an accurate analytic expression for the power spectrum of present-day non-linear cosmic density fluctuations. It depends on the theory of gravity and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Alexander Oestreicher , Harshda Saxena , Niklas Reinhardt , Elena Kozlikin , Johannes Dombrowski , Matthias Bartelmann

Perturbation theory (PT) calculation of large-scale structure has been used to interpret the observed non-linear statistics of large-scale structure at the quasi-linear regime. In particular, the so-called standard perturbation theory (SPT)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Atsushi Taruya , Takahiro Nishimichi , Donghui Jeong

Context: Analyzing the large-scale structure (LSS) with galaxy surveys demands accurate structure formation models. Such models should ideally be fast and have a clear theoretical framework to rapidly scan a variety of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-08 F. -S. Kitaura , F. Sinigaglia , A. Balaguera-Antolínez , G. Favole

We explore the Lagrangian perturbation theory (LPT) at 1-loop order with Gaussian initial conditions. We present an expansion method to approximately compute the power spectrum in LPT. Our approximate solution has good convergence in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Naonori S. Sugiyama

Peculiar velocities are analyzed through cosmological perturbations in the Newtonian longitudinal gauge characterized by irrotational shear-free congruences in an Eulerian frame. We show that non-trivial peculiar velocity fields can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Roberto A. Sussman , Sebastián Nájera , Fernando A. Pizaña , Juan Carlos Hidalgo

We present the leading order non-linear density and velocity power spectra in the complete form; previous studies have omitted the vector- and tensor-type perturbations simultaneously excited by the scalar-type perturbation in nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-22 Jai-chan Hwang , Donghui Jeong , Hyerim Noh

We use the formalism of constrained Gaussian random field to compute a precise large scale simulation of the 60 Mpc/h volume of our Local Universe. We derive the constraints from the reconstructed peculiar velocities of the 2MASS Redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Guilhem Lavaux

This work investigates the impact of cosmic flows and density perturbations on Hubble constant $H_0$ measurements using nonlinear phase-space reconstructions of the Local Universe (LU). In particular, we rely on 25 constrained N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Steffen Hess , Francisco-Shu Kitaura

We compare different nonlinear approximations to gravitational clustering in the weakly nonlinear regime, using as a comparative statistic the evolution of non-Gaussianity which can be characterised by a set of numbers $S_p$ describing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Dipak Munshi , Varun Sahni , Alexei A. Starobinsky

We study the mapping from Lagrangian to Eulerian space in the context of the Effective Field Theory (EFT) of Large Scale Structure. We compute Lagrangian displacements with Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT) and perform the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 Tobias Baldauf , Emmanuel Schaan , Matias Zaldarriaga

The formation of cosmic structures is an important diagnostic for both the dynamics of the cosmological model and the underlying theory of gravity. At the linear level of these structures, certain degeneracies remain between different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-02 Lavinia Heisenberg , Matthias Bartelmann