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    Signatures of primordial gravitational waves in matter power spectrum

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    We simulate the evolution of a dust universe from z=1089z=1089 to z=0z=0 by numerically integrating the Einstein's equation for a spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaire-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) background spacetime with scalar perturbations which are derived from the matter power spectrum produced with the Code for Anisotropies in the Microwave Background (CAMB). To investigate the effects of primordial gravitational waves (GWs) on the inhomogeneity of the universe, we add an additional decaying, divergenceless and traceless primordial tensor perturbation with its initial amplitude being 3×10−43\times 10^{-4} to the above metric. We find that this primordial tensor perturbation suppresses the matter power spectrum by about 0.01%0.01\% at z=0z=0 for modes with wave number similar to its. This suppression may be a possible probe of a GWs background in the future.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure

    Random restricted partitions

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    We study two types of probability measures on the set of integer partitions of nn with at most mm parts. The first one chooses the random partition with a chance related to its largest part only. We then obtain the limiting distributions of all of the parts together and that of the largest part as nn tends to infinity while mm is fixed or tends to infinity. In particular, if mm goes to infinity not fast enough, the largest part satisfies the central limit theorem. The second measure is very general. It includes the Dirichlet distribution and the uniform distribution as special cases. We derive the asymptotic distributions of the parts jointly and that of the largest part by taking limit of nn and mm in the same manner as that in the first probability measure.Comment: 32 page
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