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Title: Causal hydrodynamic fluctuations in non-static and inhomogeneous backgrounds

Journal Article · · Annals of Physics
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  1. Department of Physics, Sophia University, 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-8554 (Japan)

Highlights: •The fluctuation–dissipation relation is modified by inhomogeneous backgrounds. •The constitutive equations are restricted by causality and fluctuation properties. •The structure of constitutive equation gives a natural cutoff scale of the theory. •The memory function with tensor structures in inhomogeneous backgrounds is obtained. -- Abstract: To integrate hydrodynamic fluctuations, namely thermal fluctuations of hydrodynamics, into dynamical models of high-energy nuclear collisions based on relativistic hydrodynamics, the property of the hydrodynamic fluctuations given by the fluctuation–dissipation relation should be carefully investigated. The fluctuation–dissipation relation for causal dissipative hydrodynamics with the finite relaxation time is naturally given in the integral form of the constitutive equation by the linear-response theory. While, the differential form of the constitutive equation is commonly used in analytic investigations and dynamical calculations for practical reasons. We give the fluctuation–dissipation relation for the general linear-response differential form and discuss the restrictions to the structure of the differential form, which comes from the causality and the positive semi-definiteness of the noise autocorrelation, and also the relation of those restrictions to the cutoff scale of the hydrodynamic fluctuations. We also give the fluctuation–dissipation relation for the integral form in non-static and inhomogeneous background by introducing new tensors, the pathline projectors. We find new modification terms to the fluctuation–dissipation relation for the differential form in non-static and inhomogeneous background which are particularly important in dynamical models to describe rapidly expanding systems.

OSTI ID:
22848455
Journal Information:
Annals of Physics, Vol. 411; Other Information: © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-4916
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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