Growth of Cosmic Structure

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We review one of the most fruitful areas in cosmology today that bridge theory and data - the temporal growth of large-scale structure.

• We go over the growth's physical foundations, and derive its behavior in simple cosmological models.
• While doing so, we explain how measurements of growth can be used to understand theory.
• We then review how some of the most mature cosmological probes - galaxy clustering, gravitational lensing, the abundance of clusters of galaxies, cosmic velocities, and cosmic microwave background - can be used to probe the growth of structure.