Abstract
Using a full nonlinear numerical gravitational clustering simulation with Ω=1 cold dark matter and Zel'dovich initial conditions, we show that the gravitational potential evolves very little up to the present on length scales≥1.25 h -1 Mpc. We present a new approximation for the nonlinear evolution of large-scale structure, in which the gravitational potential field is assumed to remain constant up to the present, but the matter obeys the usual nonlinear equations of motion in this potential field
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