Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-12-24
Research in Astron. Astrophys. 2009, Vol.9, No.5, 501-508
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, 7 figures. to appear in Chin. J. Astron. Astrophys
Scientific paper
10.1088/1674-4527/9/5/001
We develop the effective field theory of density fluctuations for a Newtonian self-gravitating N-body system in quasi-equilibrium, apply it to a homogeneous universe with small density fluctuations. Keeping the density fluctuation up to the second order, we obtain the nonlinear field equation of the 2-pt correlation \xi(r), which contains the 3-pt correlation and formal ultra-violet divergences. By the Groth-Peebles hierarchical ansatz and the mass renormalization, the equation becomes closed with two new terms beyond the Gaussian approximation, and their coefficients are taken as parameters. The analytic solution is obtained in terms of the hypergeometric functions, which is checked numerically. With one single set of fixed two parameters, the correlation $\xi(r)$ and the corresponding power spectrum P(k) match simultaneously the results from all the major surveys, such as APM, SDSS, 2dfGRS, and REFLEX. The model gives a unifying understanding of several seemingly unrelated features of large scale structure from a field-theoretical perspective. The theory is worthy to be extended to study the evolution effects in an expanding universe.
Miao Haixing
Zhang Yang
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