Integrated perturbation theory for cosmological tensor fields. I. Basic formulation

Abstract

In order to extract maximal information about cosmology from the large-scale structure of the Universe, one needs to use every bit of signal that can be observed. Beyond the spatial distributions of astronomical objects, the spatial correlations of tensor fields, such as galaxy spins and shapes, are ones of promising sources that can be accessed in the era of large surveys in the near future. The perturbation theory is a powerful tool to analytically describe the behaviors and evolutions of correlation statistics on large scales for a given cosmology. In this paper, we formulate a nonlinear perturbation theory of tensor fields in general, based on the formulation of integrated perturbation theory for the scalar-valued bias, generalizing it to include the tensor-valued bias. To take advantage of rotational symmetry, the formalism is constructed on the basis of the irreducible decomposition of tensors, identifying physical variables which are invariant under the rotation of the coordinates system.

43 pages, 1 figure; this paper is followed by the second to fourth of a series, arXiv:2210.11085, arXiv:2304.1330 and arXiv:2405.09038

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