Cosmological Perturbation Theory Using the Schrödinger Equation

Abstract

We introduce the theory of non-linear cosmological perturbations using the correspondence limit of the Schrödinger equation. The resulting formalism is equivalent to using the collisionless Boltzman (or Vlasov) equations which remain valid during the whole evolution, even after shell crossing. Other formulations of perturbation theory explicitly break down at shell crossing, e.g. Eulerean perturbation theory, which describes gravitational collapse in the fluid limit. This paper lays the groundwork by introducing the new formalism, calculating the perturbation theory kernels which form the basis of all subsequent calculations. We also establish the connection with conventional perturbation theories, by showing that third order tree level results, such as bispectrum, skewness, cumulant correlators, three-point function are exactly reproduced in the appropriate expansion of our results. We explicitly show that cumulants up to N=5 predicted by Eulerian perturbation theory for the dark matter field $\delta$ are exactly recovered in the corresponding limit. A logarithmic mapping of the field naturally arises in the Schrödinger context, which means that tree level perturbation theory translates into (possibly incomplete) loop corrections for the conventional perturbation theory. We show that the first loop correction for the variance is ${\sigma }^2={\sigma }_L^2+(-1.14+n){\sigma }_L^4$ for a field with spectral index $n$. This yields 1.86 and 0.86 for $n=-3,-2$ respectively, and to be compared with the exact loop order corrections 1.82, and 0.88. Thus our tree-level theory recovers the dominant part of first order loop corrections of the conventional theory, while including (partial) loop corrections to infinite order in terms of $\delta$.

5 pages, submitted to ApJ Letters

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