Relativistic effects and primordial non-Gaussianity in the matter density fluctuation

Jaiyul Yoo, Jinn Ouk Gong

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Abstract

We present the third-order analytic solution of the matter density fluctuation in the proper-time hypersurface of nonrelativistic matter flows by solving the nonlinear general relativistic equations. The proper-time hypersurface provides a coordinate system that a local observer can set up without knowledge beyond its neighborhood, along with physical connections to the local Newtonian descriptions in the relativistic context. The initial condition of our analytic solution is set up by the curvature perturbation in the comoving gauge, clarifying its impact on the nonlinear evolution. We compute the effective non-Gaussian parameters due to the nonlinearity in the relativistic equations. With proper coordinate rescaling, we show that the equivalence principle is respected and the relativistic effect vanishes in the large-scale limit.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)94-98
Number of pages5
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume754
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Mar 2016

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We acknowledge useful discussions with Mehrdad Mirbabayi and David Wands. We are especially grateful to Matias Zaldarriaga for the critical comments on the manuscript and Jai-chan Hwang for sharing his unpublished results, to which we compare our results. J.Y. is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation . J.G. is supported by the Independent Junior Research Fellowship and by a Starting Grant through the Basic Science Research Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea ( 2013R1A1A1006701 ).

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