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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 312 2 i Solution by
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Use the one-loop matter power spectrum convention in which is one ordering of . Thenwith the P22 contribution to the one-loop matter power spectrumand the P13 contribution to the one-loop matter power spectrumThe factors two and three count Wick contractions. The mixed contains an odd number of zero-mean Gaussian fields, so .
One-loop contributions to the matter power spectrum
. The two one-loop power-spectrum topologies. Solid lines attach external density fields to kernels; dashed lines pair linear fields and carry a linear power spectrum. The P13 topology has two external orderings. Details.For , the ultraviolet softness of the second-order density kernel gives , soThe third-order kernel has , givingThese integrals expose the sensitivity to unresolved short-scale dynamics. The effective sound-speed counterterm in large-scale structure has exactly the required deterministic shape:Here absorbs the time and normalization conventions and has dimensions of length squared. A stochastic correction begins at and can absorb the corresponding short-scale sensitivity of .
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