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Primordial fluctuations in the cosmic density are usually assumed to take the form of a Gaussian random field that evolves under the action of gravitational instability. In the early stages, while they have low amplitude, the fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Watts , Peter Coles

A description of many-particle systems, which is more fundamental than the fluid approach, is to consider them as a kinetic gas. In this approach the dynamical variable in which the properties of the system are encoded, is the distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-08 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer , Nicoleta Voicu

We present a detailed comparison of the newly developed particle-based Kinetic Field Theory framework for cosmic large-scale structure formation with the established formalism of Eulerian Standard Perturbation Theory. We highlight the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Elena Kozlikin , Robert Lilow , Felix Fabis , Matthias Bartelmann

The currently standard theory of cosmic structure formation posits that the present-day clumpy appearance of the universe developed through gravitational amplification of the matter density fluctuations that are generated in the very early…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Naoki Yoshida

A closed set of equations for the evolution of linear perturbations of homogeneous, isotropic cosmological models can be obtained in various ways. The simplest approach is to assume a macroscopic equation of state, e.g.\ that of a perfect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Anton K. Rebhan , Dominik J. Schwarz

We present recent improvements in the perturbative treatment of particle interactions in Kinetic Field Theory (KFT) for inertial Zel'dovich trajectories. KFT has been developed for the systematic analytical calculation of non-linear cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Christophe Pixius , Safak Celik , Matthias Bartelmann

We derive a non-perturbative, closed, analytic equation for the non-linear power spectrum of cosmic density fluctuations. This result is based on our kinetic field theory (KFT) of cosmic structure formation and on evaluating particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-23 Matthias Bartelmann , Felix Fabis , Sara Konrad , Elena Kozlikin , Robert Lilow , Carsten Littek , Johannes Dombrowski

In the standard picture of cosmological structure formation, the Universe we see today is evolved under the gravitational instability from tiny random fluctuations. In this talk I discuss the onset of non-linearity in the large scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lung-Yih Chiang

This document describes analytical and numerical techniques for the generation of Gaussian density fields, which represent cosmological density perturbations. The mathematical techniques involved in the generation of density harmonics in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugo Martel

It is shown that the evolution of the density perturbations during certain eras of substantial entropy generation in the universe can be described in the scheme of the KPZ equation. Therefore, the influence on cosmological structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Berera , L. Z. Fang

Variations in the geomagnetic field occur on a vast range of time scales, from milliseconds to millions of years. The advent of satellite measurements has allowed for detailed studies of the short timescale geomagnetic field behaviour, but…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Daria Holdenried-Chernoff , David A. King , Bruce A. Buffett

The kinetic field theory is developed without assumptions of statistical homogeneity and isotropy. In a solvable toy model with short-ranged interactions, we compare first-order perturbation theory to an iterated mean-field approximation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Matthias Bartelmann , James Stokes

These lecture notes discuss several topics in the physics of cosmic structure formation starting from the evolution of small-amplitude fluctuations in the radiation-dominated era. The topics include relativistic cosmological perturbation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edmund Bertschinger

Nonlinear field theories can be used to study both standard physics questions, or to study questions such as the emergence of order and complexity. These theories are generally derived from the symmetries of a given problem and the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-09-14 Joel Thorarinson , Marcelo Gleiser

We develop an effective field theory for dissipative fluids which governs the dynamics of long-lived gapless modes associated with conserved quantities. The resulting theory gives a path integral formulation of fluctuating hydrodynamics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-30 Michael Crossley , Paolo Glorioso , Hong Liu

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

The cosmic web is a complex spatial pattern of walls, filaments, cluster nodes and underdense void regions. It emerged through gravitational amplification from the Gaussian primordial density field. Here we infer analytical expressions for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 Job Feldbrugge , Johan Hidding , Rien van de Weygaert

Using a formalism recently introduced we study the decaying of the cosmological parameter during the early evolution of an universe, whose evolution is governed by a vacuum equation of state. We use a stochastic approach in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Mauricio Bellini

The standard theory of cosmic structure formation posits that the present-day rich structure of the Universe developed through gravitational amplification of tiny matter density fluctuations generated in its very early history. Recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Naoki Yoshida

Using linear kinetic plasma theory the relation between electron density and magnetic field fluctuations for low-frequency plasma waves for Maxwellian background distribution functions of arbitrary temperatures in an uniform magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Schlickeiser , I. Lerche