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Cosmological perturbation theory at three-loop order

We analyze the dark matter power spectrum at three-loop order in standard perturbation theory of large scale structure. We observe that at late times the loop expansion does not converge even for large scales (small momenta) well within the linear regime, but exhibits properties compatible with an a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Blas, Diego, Garny, Mathias, Konstandin, Thomas
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/01/010
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1600618
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Sumario:We analyze the dark matter power spectrum at three-loop order in standard perturbation theory of large scale structure. We observe that at late times the loop expansion does not converge even for large scales (small momenta) well within the linear regime, but exhibits properties compatible with an asymptotic series. We propose a technique to restore the convergence in the limit of small momentum, and use it to obtain a perturbative expansion with improved convergence for momenta in the range where baryonic acoustic oscillations are present. Our results are compared with data from N-body simulations at different redshifts, and we find good agreement within this range.