2011

The nonlinear power spectrum in clustering quintessence cosmologies

D'Amico, Guido, Sefusatti, Emiliano

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We study the nonlinear evolution of density perturbations in cosmologies where the late-time accelerated expansion is driven by a quintessence field with vanishing speed of sound.

  • For these models matter and quintessence perturbations are comoving and it is possible to write a single continuity equation for the total density fluctuations given by a weighted sum of the two components.
  • Including the Euler equation for the common velocity field we solve the evolution equations for the nonlinear, total density power spectrum in the Time-Renormalization Group approach.
  • In fact any cosmological observable is directly related by gravity only to the total density perturbations, with the two components being individually unobservable.

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