Radiation-era comoving density mode
ID: radiation-era-comoving-density-mode
For radiation in cosmology, the comoving-gauge density contrast satisfies . The displayed basis solves it. The first mode is regular and grows as outside the sound horizon; the second diverges as toward the initial singularity. At large , the regular mode approaches and has constant-amplitude acoustic oscillations.
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