Critical Index and Fixed Point in the Transfer of Power in Nonlinear Gravitational Clustering

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1996-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9605202v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 286 (1997) 1023

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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We investigate the transfer of power between different scales and coupling of modes during non-linear evolution of gravitational clustering in an expanding universe. We start with a power spectrum of density fluctuations that is exponentially damped outside a narrow range of scales and use numerical simulations to study evolution of this power spectrum. Non-Linear effects generate power at other scales with most power flowing from larger to smaller scales. The ``cascade'' of power leads to equipartition of energy at smaller scales, implying a power spectrum with index $n\approx -1$. We find that such a spectrum is produced in the range $1 < \delta < 200$ for density contrast $\delta$. This result continues to hold even when small scale power is added to the initial power spectrum. Semi-analytic models for gravitational clustering suggest a tendency for the effective index to move towards a critical index $n_c\approx -1$ in this range. For nn_c, it grows at a slower rate - thereby changing the index closer to n_c. At scales larger than the narrow range of scales with initial power, a k^4 tail is produced. We demonstrate that non-linear small scales do not effect the growth of perturbations at larger scales.

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