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A Large Deviation Principle at play in Large-Scale Structure cosmology

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2016-09-21 v1

Abstract

We present an application of Large Deviation Theory to the problem of structure growth on large-scale structure cosmology. Starting from gaussian distributed overdensities on concentric spherical shells, we show that a Large Deviation Principle holds for the densities on the corresponding shells after gravitational evolution if no shell-crossing happens. As consequences of the Large Deviation Principle we obtain the cumulant generating function for the non-linear densities, and present formulae to compute the cumulant generating function for general window functions.

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@article{arxiv.1511.08641,
  title  = {A Large Deviation Principle at play in Large-Scale Structure cosmology},
  author = {Francis Bernardeau and Paulo Reimberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08641},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures

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