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Cosmological Perturbations and Numerical Simulations

by Ian Huston on Mar 25, 2010

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Talk given at Queen Mary, University of London in March 2010. ...

Talk given at Queen Mary, University of London in March 2010.

Cosmological perturbation theory is well established as a tool for
probing the inhomogeneities of the early universe.
In this talk I will motivate the use of perturbation theory and
outline the mathematical formalism. Perturbations beyond linear order
are especially interesting as non-Gaussian effects can be used to
constrain inflationary models.
I will show how the Klein-Gordon equation at second order, written in
terms of scalar field variations only, can be numerically solved.
The slow roll version of the second order source term is used and the
method is shown to be extendable to the full equation. This procedure
allows the evolution of second order perturbations in general and the
calculation of the non-Gaussianity parameter in cases where there is
no analytical solution available.

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