Field Theory of the Correlation Function of Mass Density Fluctuations for Self-Gravitating Systems

The mass density distribution of Newtonian self-gravitating systems is studied analytically in field theoretical method. Modeling the system as a fluid in hydrostatical equilibrium, we apply Schwinger's functional derivative on the average of the field equation of mass density, and obtain the field equation of 2-point correlation function $\xi(r)$ of the mass density fluctuation, which includes the next order of nonlinearity beyond the Gaussian approximation. The 3-point correlation occurs hierarchically in the equation, and is cut off by the Groth-Peebles anzats, making it closed. We perform renormalization, and write the equation with three nonlinear coefficients. The equation tells that $\xi $ depends on the point mass $m$ and the Jeans wavelength scale $\lambda_{0}$, which are different for galaxies and clusters. Applying to large scale structure, it predicts that the profile of $\xi_{cc} $ of clusters is similar to $\xi_{gg}$ of galaxies but with a higher amplitude, and that the correlation length increases with the mean separation between clusters, i.e, a scaling behavior $r_0\simeq 0.4d$. The solution yields the galaxy correlation $\xi_{gg}(r) \simeq (r_0/r)^{1.7}$ valid only in a range $1

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• Renormalization
• Physics
• Field (physics)
• order
• Mathematical physics
• Correlation function (statistical mechanics)
• Astrophysics
• Ansatz
• Functional derivative
• Power law
• Field theory (psychology)

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