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Phys. Rev. D 79, 103526 (2009) [13 pages]

Chasing the nonlinear evolution of matter power spectrum with a numerical resummation method: Solution of closure equations

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Takashi Hiramatsu1 and Atsushi Taruya2,3
1Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
2Research Center for the Early Universe, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
3Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8568, Japan

Received 5 March 2009; published 27 May 2009

We present a new numerical scheme to treat the nonlinear evolution of cosmological power spectra. Governing equations for matter power spectra have been previously derived by a nonperturbative technique with closure approximation. Solutions of the resultant closure equations just correspond to the resummation of an infinite class of perturbation corrections, and they consistently reproduce the one-loop results of standard perturbation theory. We develop a numerical algorithm to solve closure evolutions in both perturbative and nonperturbative regimes. The present numerical scheme is particularly suited for examining nonlinear matter power spectrum in general cosmological models, including modified theory of gravity. As a demonstration, we study weakly nonlinear evolution of power spectrum in a class of modified gravity models, as well as various dark energy models.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.103526
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.103526
PACS:
98.80.−k