Use the one-loop matter power spectrum convention in which is one ordering of . Then
with the P22 contribution to the one-loop matter power spectrum
and the P13 contribution to the one-loop matter power spectrum
The factors two and three count Wick contractions. The mixed contains an odd number of zero-mean Gaussian fields, so .
Figure 1.
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 , so
The third-order kernel has , giving
These 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 .
For symmetrized standard perturbation theory density kernels, the two one-loop contractions are
and
The factors and count the relevant Wick contractions. Since the cross-correlation occurs in both orders, the one-loop matter power spectrum is
Expand . For a Gaussian linear density field, odd linear correlators vanish and Wick theorem reduces the fourth-order terms to products of the linear power spectrum. Hence
The two contractions of the two quadratic fields give
The three choices for which argument of carries the external momentum give
Thus the contribution conventionally called is . These are the two one-loop diagrams of the one-loop matter power spectrum.