Violation of the consistency relations for large-scale structure with dark energy

Abstract

We study infrared effects in perturbation theory for large-scale structure coupled to the effective field theory of dark energy, focusing on, in particular, Degenerate Higher-Order Scalar-Tensor (DHOST) theories. In the subhorizon, Newtonian limit, DHOST theories introduce an extra large-scale velocity viπ which is in general different from the matter velocity vi. Contrary to the case in Horndeski theories, the presence of this extra large-scale velocity means that one cannot eliminate the long-wavelength effects of both vi and viπ with a single coordinate transformation, and thus the standard ΛCDM consistency relations for large-scale structure are violated by terms proportional to the relative velocity vi − viπ. We show, however, that in non-linear quantities this violation is determined by the linear equations and the symmetries of the fluid system. We find that the size of the baryon acoustic oscillations in the squeezed limit of the bispectrum is modified, that the bias expansion contains extra terms which contribute to the squeezed limit of the galaxy bispectrum, that infrared modes in the one-loop power spectrum no longer cancel, and that the equal-time double soft limit of the tree-level trispectrum is non-vanishing. {We also show how one can resum the effects of one of the large-scale velocities on the power spectrum, and how to include the relative velocity perturbatively in the resummation. This result is also applicable to other theories with a large-scale relative velocity, such as dark matter and baryons.} Many of our computations are also relevant for perturbation theory in ΛCDM with exact time dependence.