Intermittent Turbulence, Fast Flavor Conversion, and Observable Supernova Probes
Abstract
Fast flavor conversion (FFC) in core-collapse supernovae is usually analyzed in homogeneous backgrounds or with smooth stochastic turbulence closures. We construct an exact linear benchmark in which the matter-noise memory kernel is instead generated by a finite She--Leveque log-Poisson cascade. Projecting the marginal FFC channel onto this kernel gives a causal Volterra equation whose non-Markovian memory closes into a finite local system. The resulting Laplace-space resolvent is rational, with one pole pair for each cascade level, so the dispersion relation, characteristic polynomial, and time-domain solution can be checked analytically. We then connect this benchmark to the realization-level toy model and gain-region heating proxy used in the supplementary derivation. For the updated intermittent choice , , and hence , the representative , cascade gives and an intermittent conversion fraction . The older weaker normalization gives . The corresponding Mori-like heating ratios are and , whereas the Wang/Fornax-like ratios are and . Thus intermittency mainly controls the conversion fraction, while the neutrino spectral hierarchy controls the sign of the heating correction.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.11272,
title = {Intermittent Turbulence, Fast Flavor Conversion, and Observable Supernova Probes},
author = {Yiwei Bao and Andrea Addazi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.11272},
year = {2026}
}