Dynamics of gravitational clustering

DOI10.1051/0004-6361:20011309zbMATH Open1025.83035arXivastro-ph/0107015OpenAlexW4290700930WikidataQ68842717 ScholiaQ68842717MaRDI QIDQ4707294FDOQ4707294

Authors: Patrick Valageas 

Publication date: 19 June 2003

Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a systematic method to obtain the solution of the collisionless Boltzmann equation which describes the growth of large-scale structures as a perturbative series over the initial density perturbations. We give an explicit calculation of the second-order terms which are shown to agree with the results obtained from the hydrodynamical description of the system. Then, we explain that this identity extends to all orders of perturbation theory and that the perturbative series actually diverge for hierarchical scenarios. However, since the collisionless Boltzmann equation provides the exact description of the dynamics (including the non-linear regime) these results may serve as a basis for a study of the non-linear regime. In particular, we derive a non-perturbative quadratic integral equation which explicitly relates the actual non-linear distribution function to the initial conditions (more precisely, to the linear growing mode). This allows us to write an explicit path-integral expression for the probability distribution of the exact non-linear density field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107015

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologylarge-scale structure of universegravitational clusteringperturbative expansions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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