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Lectures on hydrodynamic fluctuations in relativistic theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-05 v1

Abstract

These are pedagogical lecture notes on hydrodynamic fluctuations in normal relativistic fluids. The lectures discuss correlation functions of conserved densities in thermal equilibrium, interactions of the hydrodynamic modes, an effective action for viscous fluids, and the breakdown of the derivative expansion in hydrodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1205.5040,
  title  = {Lectures on hydrodynamic fluctuations in relativistic theories},
  author = {Pavel Kovtun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.5040},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

55 pages. Based on lectures given at the Seattle INT Summer School on Applications of String Theory in July 2011