Effective dark matter fluid with higher derivative corrections

Abstract

The effective field theory for hydrodynamics allows to write the action functional for fluid. In this paper, some simplest possible higher derivative terms in the fluid action and the cosmological consequences of their presence are considered. Particular attention is given to dark matter, modelled as a dust with higher derivative corrections. We study the conditions of absence of singularities in the solutions of the background and perturbed equations and investigate the evolution of perturbations in two simple models of matter dominated Universe. There is a range of parameters describing the higher derivative terms, in which the short-wavelength perturbations of dark matter are suppressed and the dark matter can be seen as fairly homogeneous on a sufficiently small scale.