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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 312 2 ii Solution by
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The linear density contrast is Gaussian, so its cubic moment vanishes. The leading contribution isTwo connected Wick contractions giveThe third pairing vanishes because . Isotropy makes and , so the angular average of the kernel isSince to leading order, the unsmoothed matter-density reduced skewness isThis assumes finite unsmoothed variance; inserting a smoothing window generally changes .
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