Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2023/iii/paper-310/3/e/solution

Yes. The baryons carry the oscillatory baryon transfer function inherited from the pre-recombination photon-baryon fluid. Their later infall toward cold-dark-matter overdensities suppresses the relative mode and drives , but gravitational evolution does not remove every scale-dependent acoustic phase. The total cosmological density power spectrum therefore contains the small wiggles known as a baryon acoustic oscillation in the matter power spectrum.

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