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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2019 / iii / Paper 312 / 2 / i / Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06

Use the one-loop matter power spectrum convention in which

P_{13}

is one ordering of

⟨ δ^{(1)} δ^{(3)} ⟩

. Then

P (k, t) = D^{2} P_{lin} (k) + P_{22} (k, t) + 2 P_{13} (k, t) + \dots,

with the P22 contribution to the one-loop matter power spectrum

P_{22} = 2 D^{4} \int \frac{d ^{3} q}{( 2 π ) ^{3}} F_{2, s} (q, k - q)^{2} P_{lin} (q) P_{lin} (∣ k - q ∣)

and the P13 contribution to the one-loop matter power spectrum

P_{13} = 3 D^{4} P_{lin} (k) \int \frac{d ^{3} q}{( 2 π ) ^{3}} F_{3, s} (k, q, - q) P_{lin} (q) .

The factors two and three count Wick contractions. The mixed

P_{12}

contains an odd number of zero-mean Gaussian fields, so $P_{12} = 0$ .

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.

For

q ≫ k

, the ultraviolet softness of the second-order density kernel gives

F_{2, s} = O (k^{2} / q^{2})

, so

P_{22}^{UV} = O (D^{4} k^{4} \int \frac{d ^{3} q}{( 2 π ) ^{3}} \frac{P _{lin} ( q ) ^{2}}{q ^{4}}) .

The third-order kernel has

F_{3, s} (k, q, - q) = O (k^{2} / q^{2})

2 P_{13}^{UV} = O (D^{4} k^{2} P_{lin} (k) \int \frac{d ^{3} q}{( 2 π ) ^{3}} \frac{P _{lin} ( q )}{q ^{2}}) .

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:

P_{ct} (k, t) = - 2 c_{eff}^{2} (t) k^{2} P_{L} (k, t), P_{L} = D^{2} P_{lin} .

Here

c_{eff}^{2}

absorbs the time and normalization conventions and has dimensions of length squared. A stochastic correction begins at

k^{4}

and can absorb the corresponding short-scale sensitivity of

P_{22}

.

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Ultraviolet sensitivity of the one-loop matter power spectrum 2026-10-05

For internal momentum

q ≫ k

, the P22 contribution to the one-loop matter power spectrum starts at

k^{4}

, while twice the P13 contribution to the one-loop matter power spectrum starts at

k^{2} P (k)

. The latter has the same momentum dependence as the effective sound-speed counterterm in large-scale structure. Short-scale stochastic contributions start at

k^{4}

by mass and momentum conservation.

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