Pith. sign in

REVIEW 22 cited by

Adiabatic Modes in Cosmology

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv astro-ph/0302326 v1 pith:KRB7QSLH submitted 2003-02-17 astro-ph gr-qchep-th

classification astro-phgr-qchep-th
keywords largewavelengthadiabaticmodesperturbationscosmologicalequationseras
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

Signed reviews

No signed human review yet.

0 comments
abstract

We show that the field equations for cosmological perturbations in Newtonian gauge always have an adiabatic solution, for which a quantity ${\cal R}$ is non-zero and constant in all eras in the limit of large wavelength, so that it can be used to connect observed cosmological fluctuations in this mode with those at very early times. There is also a second adiabatic mode, for which ${\cal R}$ vanishes for large wavelength, and in general there may be non-adiabatic modes as well. These conclusions apply in all eras and whatever the constituents of the universe, under only a mild technical assumption about the wavelength dependence of the field equations for large wave length. In the absence of anisotropic inertia, the perturbations in the adiabatic modes are given for large wavelength by universal formulas in terms of the Robertson--Walker scale factor. We discuss an apparent discrepancy between these results and what appears to be a conservation law in all modes found for large wavelength in synchronous gauge: it turns out that, although equivalent, synchronous and Newtonian gauges suggest inequivalent assumptions about the behavior of the perturbations for large wavelength.

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 22 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. OpenAlex reports about 302 citations worldwide. Full citation record

  1. Amnesia in the Axion Misalignment Landscape

    hep-ph 2026-08 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    Kinetic misalignment fragmentation drives the small-scale axion spectrum toward the same attractor as post-inflationary axions, largely erasing the memory of the initial misalignment angle and velocity.

  2. Ab Initio Cosmological Simulations: From Inflation to Present-Day Structure Formation

    astro-ph.CO 2026-07 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    Nonlinear axion-U(1) inflation, simulated on a lattice and fed into N-body simulations, boosts small-scale structure and high-redshift halo counts by up to ~200% relative to standard single-field initial conditions.

  3. Asymptotically-FLRW$_3$ spacetimes

    gr-qc 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 7.0 of 10

    Introduces asymptotically-FLRW3 spacetimes whose asymptotic symmetry group is the one-parameter family BMS3^k, fully characterizes the scalar-field solution space, identifies covariant mass/angular-momentum aspects an...

  4. Disentangling Similarity and Relatedness in Topic Models

    cs.CL 2026-03 unverdicted novelty 7.0 of 10

    Topic models lie on a spectrum from thematic-relatedness-rich to similarity-rich, and that position predicts which downstream tasks they handle well.

  5. Effective Field Theory and In-In Correlators

    hep-th 2024-12 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

    Matching in-in correlators between a full theory and its effective theory requires extra boundary terms in flat space, but those terms fade away in de Sitter space.

  6. Classical conformal invariance and superhorizon dynamics in de Sitter

    hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 6.5 of 10

    Standard SdSET power counting fails for classically conformal φ⁴; leading superhorizon modes must be read from the two-loop anomalous dimension of the two-point function.

  7. Locality in effective field theory for inflationary soft modes

    gr-qc 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

    The authors define a locality condition for hard-mode states during inflation that unifies local effective dynamics for soft modes, suppression of loop corrections, generalized soft theorems, and absence of infrared d...

  8. Finite parts of inflationary loops II: A streamlined UV in-in algorithm and distinguishable signatures

    hep-th 2025-12 unverdicted novelty 6.0 of 10

    A new UV in-in algorithm for inflationary loops identifies renormalization difficulties and distinguishable finite corrections to the one-loop bispectrum in EFT inflation.

  9. Cosmological tensions in Proca-Nuevo theory

    hep-th 2025-11 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Fitting a one-parameter vector-tensor dark energy model to CMB, BAO, and supernova data reduces the Hubble tension to about 1.5–2σ, but the preference over ΛCDM is weak and disappears once full perturbations are included.

  10. Inflationary trispectrum of gauge fields from scalar and tensor exchanges

    hep-th 2025-09 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    The inflationary trispectrum of gauge fields from scalar and tensor exchanges is derived analytically, yielding beta^zeta_nl = (b^zeta_nl)^2 in the counter-collinear limit and growing flattened-limit signals.

  11. Debiasing inference in large-scale structure with non-flat volume measures

    astro-ph.CO 2025-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    A curvature-weighted, non-flat volume measure removes the leading-order marginalization bias in posterior means, recovering cosmological parameters in mocks to below 0.1 sigma.

  12. Soft Photon, Gluon and Graviton Theorems in (A)dS from Conformal Invariance

    hep-th 2025-06 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Conformal Ward identities fix the leading soft limits of photon, gluon, and graviton correlators in (A)dS, and the subleading soft limit for gravitons.

  13. Neutrino masses from large-scale structures: future sensitivity and theory dependence

    astro-ph.CO 2024-12 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Forecasted 1-sigma sensitivity to the sum of neutrino masses is 15 meV for Planck+DESI and 7 meV for CMB-S4+MegaMapper, with the one-loop bispectrum providing 10% and 30% of the constraining power.

  14. Finite parts of inflationary loops

    hep-th 2024-11 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    A new dimensional-regularization procedure extracts complete finite parts of inflationary loop integrals, yielding a regulator-independent one-loop tensor power spectrum in slow-roll inflation with no late-time divergence.

  15. Cosmological Collider Physics and the Curvaton

    hep-ph 2019-08 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

    In the curvaton scenario, heavy particles with masses near the inflationary Hubble scale generate observable non-Gaussian signals because the curvaton sector can have a much lower EFT cutoff than the inflaton sector.

  16. How Dilatation Invariance Suppresses Loop Corrections to Curvature Perturbations on CMB Scales

    astro-ph.CO 2026-08 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    Dilatation invariance forces the non-linear curvature perturbation on super-Hubble scales to depend only on the decaying/growing mode, suppressing loop corrections to the CMB power spectrum even with sharp transitions.

  17. Cancellation of one-loop time dependence in superhorizon curvature perturbations from all scales

    astro-ph.CO 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 5.0 of 10

    One-loop time dependence in superhorizon curvature perturbations cancels when all-scale contributions and boundary terms are included consistently via the δN formalism.

  18. Axion Perturbations: A General Analytical Treatment

    hep-ph 2025-10 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    Axion dark-matter perturbations are determined entirely by the homogeneous axion background's dependence on its initial misalignment angle, plus Weinberg's universal adiabatic-mode term.

  19. A Compact Story of Positivity in de Sitter

    hep-th 2025-08 unverdicted novelty 5.0 of 10

    Compares two methods to resolve disagreements and prove positivity of anomalous dimensions for principal series fields coupled to compact scalar operators in de Sitter space.

  20. Ward Identity Constraints on Loop Corrections in Non-Attractor Inflation

    astro-ph.CO 2025-06 unverdicted novelty 5.0 of 10

    Ward identities derived from perturbation-theory symmetries enforce non-perturbative constraints on the infrared power spectrum and guarantee conservation of super-horizon modes in non-attractor inflation.

  21. GGI Lectures on Large-Scale Structure Perturbation Theory (Effective Field Theory)

    astro-ph.CO 2026-07 accept novelty 2.0 of 10

    Pedagogical notes derive large-scale-structure EFT from symmetries, covering SPT failures, BAO IR resummation, counterterms, galaxy bias, redshift-space distortions, and Lagrangian PT.

  22. From inflation to hot big bang -- a tutorial on cosmological perturbations

    hep-ph 2026-07 accept novelty 1.0 of 10

    A tutorial deriving cosmological perturbation equations from inflation through reheating, with explicit gauge-invariant computations and Python scripts.

Pith tools