Solution

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For , neglect pressure support. The growing and decaying Jeans instability modes obey
In an Einstein-de Sitter universe, gives , and the matter-density relation gives . Thus
Try a power law . Its characteristic equation is
Therefore the Einstein-de Sitter density-growth modes are
This is a linear result while ; a growing mode eventually leaves that regime.

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