Employing the perturbative treatment of gravitational clustering, we discuss possible effects of primordial non-Gaussianity on the matter power spectrum. As gravitational clustering develops, the coupling between different Fourier modes of density perturbations becomes important and the primordial non-Gaussianity which intrinsically possesses a nontrivial mode correlation can affect the late-time evolution of the power spectrum. We quantitatively estimate the non-Gaussian effect on the power spectrum from the perturbation theory. The potential impact on the cosmological parameter estimation using the power spectrum are investigated based on the Fisher-matrix formalism. In addition, on the basis of the local biasing prescription, non-Gaussian effects on the galaxy power spectrum are considered, showing that the scale-dependent biasing arises from a local-type primordial non-Gaussianity. On the other hand, an equilateral-type non-Gaussianity does not induce such scale dependence because of weaker mode correlations between small and large Fourier modes.

• Received 8 September 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.123534