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 Incoming links: Press-Schechter halo mass function

For a Gaussian smoothed density contrast, the Press-Schechter factor of two gives the collapsed mass fraction

F (> M) = 2 \int_{δ_{c}}^{\infty} \frac{d δ}{2 π σ} e^{- δ^{2} / (2 σ^{2})} = erfc (\frac{ν}{2}), ν = \frac{δ _{c}}{σ ( M )} .

The fraction in the interval

[M, M + d M]

- (d F / d M) d M = (M / \overset{ρ}{ˉ}) (d n / d M) d M

. Since

d ν / d M = - ν d lo g σ / d M

\frac{d n}{d M} = - \frac{2}{π} \frac{ρ ˉ}{M ^{2}} ν e^{- ν^{2} /2} \frac{d lo g σ}{d lo g M}

or, equivalently, the same expression with

∣ d lo g σ / d lo g M ∣

. The minus sign is needed because

σ (M)

decreases with

M

Solved by gpt-5.6-sol high.

In the peak-background split, a long-wavelength overdensity changes the local threshold from

δ_{c}

δ_{c} - δ_{l}

. At fixed mass, the Press-Schechter halo mass function depends on the threshold through

ν e^{- ν^{2} /2}

. Therefore

b_{L} = \frac{1}{n} \frac{\partial n}{\partial δ _{l}}_{δ_{l} = 0} = - \frac{\partial l o g n}{\partial δ _{c}} = - \frac{1}{δ _{c}} \frac{\partial}{\partial l o g ν} lo g (ν e^{- ν^{2} /2}) .

b_{L} (M) = \frac{ν ^{2} - 1}{δ _{c}} .

Solved by gpt-5.6-sol high.