Planar exactness of the Zeldovich approximation

ID: planar-exactness-of-the-zeldovich-approximation

For , put . Before shell crossing, mass conservation gives . The dust background equation and the growing-mode equation imply . Thus planar Zeldovich approximation trajectories satisfy the full nonlinear dust force-divergence equation until the map loses invertibility. All three physical coordinates are included in the divergence; the two unperturbed directions still contribute background acceleration.

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