Using the Zeldovich dynamics to test expansion schemes
From MaRDI portal
Publication:5437476
Abstract: We apply various expansion schemes that may be used to study gravitational clustering to the simple case of the Zeldovich dynamics. Using the well-known exact solution of the Zeldovich dynamics we can compare the predictions of these various perturbative methods with the exact nonlinear result and study their convergence properties. We find that most systematic expansions fail to recover the decay of the response function in the highly nonlinear regime. ``Linear methods lead to increasingly fast growth in the nonlinear regime for higher orders, except for Pade approximants that give a bounded response at any order. ``Nonlinear methods manage to obtain some damping at one-loop order but they fail at higher orders. Although it recovers the exact Gaussian damping, a resummation in the high-k limit is not justified very well as the generation of nonlinear power does not originate from a finite range of wavenumbers (hence there is no simple separation of scales). No method is able to recover the relaxation of the matter power spectrum on highly nonlinear scales. It is possible to impose a Gaussian cutoff in a somewhat ad-hoc fashion to reproduce the behavior of the exact two-point functions for two different times. However, this cutoff is not directly related to the clustering of matter and disappears in exact equal-time statistics such as the matter power spectrum. On a quantitative level, the usual perturbation theory, and the nonlinear scheme to which one adds an ansatz for the response function with such a Gaussian cutoff, are the two most efficient methods. These results should hold for the gravitational dynamics as well (this has been checked at one-loop order), since the structure of the equations of motion is identical for both dynamics.
Recommendations
- Expansion schemes for gravitational clustering: computing two-point and three-point functions
- Dynamics of gravitational clustering
- Dynamics of gravitational clustering
- Impact of shell crossing and scope of perturbative approaches, in real and redshift space
- Nonlinear gravitational clustering using the Zel'dovich approximation
Cited in
(7)- Some statistical properties of the Burgers equation with white-noise initial velocity
- Divergence of perturbation theory in large scale structures
- Impact of shell crossing and scope of perturbative approaches, in real and redshift space
- Expansion schemes for gravitational clustering: computing two-point and three-point functions
- Statistical properties of the Burgers equation with Brownian initial velocity
- Dark matter vorticity and velocity dispersion from truncated Dyson-Schwinger equations
- Kinetic field theory: exact free evolution of Gaussian phase-space correlations
This page was built for publication: Using the Zeldovich dynamics to test expansion schemes
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5437476)
