Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 312 2 i Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Use the one-loop matter power spectrum convention in which is one ordering of . Thenwith the P22 contribution to the one-loop matter power spectrumand the P13 contribution to the one-loop matter power spectrumThe factors two and three count Wick contractions. The mixed contains an odd number of zero-mean Gaussian fields, so .
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 , soThe third-order kernel has , givingThese 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 .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 312 4 ii Solution Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-03
For symmetrized standard perturbation theory density kernels, the two one-loop contractions areandThe factors and count the relevant Wick contractions. Since the cross-correlation occurs in both orders, the one-loop matter power spectrum is
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 312 2 ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
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. HenceThe two contractions of the two quadratic fields giveThe three choices for which argument of carries the external momentum giveThus the contribution conventionally called is . These are the two one-loop diagrams of the one-loop matter power spectrum.
