http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08059
We study the small-scale asymptotic behaviour of the cold dark matter density fluctuation power spectrum in the Zel’dovich approximation, without introducing an ultraviolet cut-off. Assuming an initially correlated Gaussian random field and spectral index $0 < n_s < 1$, we derive the small-scale asymptotic behaviour of the initial momentum-momentum correlations. This result is then used to derive the asymptotics of the power spectrum in the Zel’dovich approximation. Our main result is an asymptotic series, dominated by a $k^{-3}$ tail at large wave-numbers, containing higher-order terms that differ by integer powers of $k^{n_s-1}$ and logarithms of $k$. Furthermore, we show that dark matter power spectra with an ultraviolet cut-off develop an intermediate range of scales, where the power spectrum is accurately described by the asymptotics of dark matter without a cut-off. These results reveal information about the mathematical structure that underlies the perturbative terms in kinetic field theory and thus the non-linear power spectrum. We also discuss the sensitivity of the small-scale asymptotics to the spectral index $n_s$.
S. Konrad, Y. Ginat and M. Bartelmann
Thu, 17 Feb 22
26/60
Comments: 21 pages, 1 table, 6 figures; to be submitted to SciPost Physics
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