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Distributions of Fourier modes of cosmological density fields
Phys. Rev. D 51, 6714 – Published 15 June, 1995
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.51.6714
Abstract
We discuss the probability distributions of Fourier modes of cosmological density fields using the central limit theorem is it applies to weighted integrals of random fields. It is shown that if the cosmological principle holds in a certain sense, i.e., the Universe approaches homogeneity and isotropy sufficiently rapidly on very large scales, the one-point distribution of each Fourier mode of the density field is Gaussian whether or not the density field itself is Gaussian. Therefore, one-point distributions of the power spectrum obtained from observational data or from simulations are not a good test of whether the density field is Gaussian.
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