Analytic approach to the perturbative expansion of nonlinear gravitational fluctuations in cosmological density and velocity fields.

Abstract

Equations of self-gravitating systems in the Universe are solved by expanding as perturbation series in Fourier space. The formulas for the higher-order terms are given for density and velocity fields. We apply the formulas to several analytically integrable models whose linear density power spectra obey a single power law, and asymptotically approach the prediction of the cold-dark-matter scenario. We explicitly give the nonlinear gravitational evolution for the fields and its dependence on the initial spectrum.