Use the Burgers reduction of weakly nonlinear rightgoing acoustics, with , , and . The equation of state expands as
At order one, mass conservation and momentum conservation give and . For the pure rightgoing acoustic wave with no independent leading mean density or velocity shift, . This is the background choice implicit in the requested traveling-wave expansion; additional mean components would modify its phase convention. The source's duplicated phrase about expanding should refer to expanding as well as .
At order , the mass conservation equation becomes
whereas the momentum conservation equation becomes
In the latter equation, the two nonlinear products and cancel. Substitute the equation of state relation into the former equation and add the two equations to eliminate the first corrections. The result is
The same calculation gives , so the first corrections may be chosen without an explicit secular factor of . This is why the retarded-time description can remain uniform for , provided the leading profile and its relevant derivatives remain bounded over that range and the slow propagation interval.
This Inviscid Burgers equation can develop a shock, so the source's uniformity assertion needs a pre-shock qualification. If and , its method of characteristics gives
The smooth construction ends when this denominator vanishes; if , the first such distance is .
For viscosity write with bounded positive . Since , the order- momentum conservation equation instead reads . Addition now yields the viscous Burgers equation
Its positive diffusion resolves the inviscid steepening rather than supporting an unqualified smooth inviscid expansion through shock formation.
Let and use a fixed arbitrary material subvolume in the reference configuration, with outward unit normal . The reference mass density is time independent. The global momentum conservation law is
The divergence theorem, differentiation under the integral, and arbitrariness of give
The global conservation of energy law includes both internal energy and kinetic energy:
Here is outgoing heat flux per reference area. Localizing gives
Subtract the scalar product of the local momentum conservation law with . Since , this proves the Lagrangian internal energy balance
For positive temperature , the global entropy inequality is
Its local excess is a nonnegative production density . Expanding the divergence of proves the Lagrangian entropy inequality in the requested equality form:
No constitutive assumption on the heat flux was needed for these balance identities.
For the reference-configuration jump balances, make the orientation convention explicit. Write and let point from the minus side to the plus side. Let be the actual interface speed in direction . A signed level function with the plus side obeys on the interface. For , the singular time derivative is ; the singular reference divergence of is . Thus a local conservation law bounded sources has the Rankine-Hugoniot condition
This is also the shrinking moving-pillbox calculation of the global law: finite volume supplies have no surviving surface term.
To match the displayed positive-sign momentum jump in the paper, use its speed parameter as , so the interface travels in direction . Assuming continuous and no surface force or energy supply, the jump laws are then
and, from ,
The last inequality is nonnegative entropy production concentrated on the interface. Temperature and flux in the entropy term are the traces on their respective sides; one cannot take a common temperature outside the jump unless it is continuous.
If is instead defined as the interface speed in direction , all three terms above acquire a minus sign. In particular the printed positive-sign momentum formula requires the opposite speed convention; changing just the order of the jump does not remove this convention issue. If reference density is discontinuous, replace by the jump of the complete conserved density.
An equivalent internal-energy jump follows by subtracting the kinetic-energy jump using , where :
The averaged traction appears because ; using a one-sided traction would generally be incorrect.
Set . Mass and normal momentum conservation imply
After cancelling the unchanged tangential kinetic energies, the energy condition is . With and normal Mach number , rearrangement factors it as
The first root is the no-shock solution. The nontrivial perfect-gas shock jump conditions therefore give
Its density and pressure ratios are
Physical admissibility selects a compressive, entropy-increasing shock. This can be verified directly: with , define . The derivative of after inserting these ratios is
where pressures are positive, and at . Thus the entropy increases precisely on the branch ; the positive-pressure expansion branch decreases entropy. Since the normal speed is positive,
The endpoint one is the zero-strength limit, not a finite shock. The downstream normal Mach number obeys .
Take any fixed material subvolume of the reference configuration, with outward normal vector , current particle velocity , and positive temperature . The first law of thermodynamics, including kinetic energy, is
The heat-flux sign is negative because is outward. The Second law of thermodynamics supplies the corresponding integral Lagrangian entropy inequality:
The temperature in each supply or flux term is the local temperature, not a common temperature pulled outside the integrals.
Apply the divergence theorem and use the reference momentum conservation equation . In the total-energy equation, the kinetic derivative cancels the body-force work and the term. Since , the remaining local Lagrangian internal energy balance and Lagrangian entropy inequality are
They hold pointwise because was arbitrary. In particular,
The specific Helmholtz free energy is . Substitution yields its balance
and elimination of the heat supply yields the Clausius-Duhem inequality
For , expand the derivative to obtain
The usual Coleman-Noll procedure admits independent reversible choices of and at a fixed state. Their coefficients must vanish, since either sign and arbitrary magnitude would otherwise violate the inequality. Thus
Internal-variable evolution and heat conduction must satisfy this remaining inequality. Substituting the constitutive relations back into the energy balance gives
The last printed equation is missing a factor on its internal-variable term. The PDF defines with per unit mass, so the expression above is the dimensionally consistent consequence. Equivalently define the volumetric thermodynamic force conjugate to an internal variable ; the term is then with no extra density. The two conventions must not be mixed.
For thermoelasticity with a temperature-dependent constraint, admissible rates obey
The reversible coefficient functional need now vanish only on this tangent hyperplane. Hence it can be a scalar multiple of the constraint normal:
Therefore
The reaction terms cancel on admissible rates, leaving the same internal-variable/conduction inequality and entropy heating equation. The multiplier is determined by equilibrium and boundary conditions rather than by the free energy alone.
For linear thermoelasticity with prescribed thermal volume, write , , and . Hold the internal variables fixed in this reversible linearization, and evaluate all derivatives below at and zero reaction. The stress-free reference state has . Since there, first-order nominal and Cauchy stress tensors agree. Their constitutive laws become
where equality of mixed free-energy derivatives gives
The linearized constraint is . Thus volume is thermally prescribed; strict temperature-independent incompressibility corresponds to . The coefficient is an entropy slope; the corresponding volumetric heat capacity at fixed deformation is .
Together with , the first-order thermal balance is . A heat-flux constitutive law completes the evolution problem. The paired signs of the coupling tensor follow from the same free energy, rather than from separately postulated mechanical and thermal equations.
For and initially , Schwinger parameterization and the supplied Gaussian integral give
Substitute to obtain the Euclidean massive loop integral
For a positive integer , . Outside the convergence region this expression defines its meromorphic continuation, used in dimensional regularization.
Combine the two denominators with a Feynman parameter and shift by . This gives
The Gamma function has , and the remaining factors tend to and one. Hence the massive scalar bubble pole in four dimensions is
The pole is independent of the external momentum, as required for a local quartic counterterm.
Use the mostly-plus Minkowski metric and expand . The momentum-space Feynman rules are: an internal scalar propagator ; a four-scalar interaction vertex ; a momentum conservation delta function at each vertex; and per independent loop momentum. Divide by the Feynman-diagram symmetry factor. All momenta can be taken incoming. External propagators are omitted when computing an amputated one-particle-irreducible vertex.
The connected one-loop one-particle-irreducible Feynman diagrams are the two-point tadpole diagram and the three four-point bubble diagrams, in the channels. Each has symmetry factor . A tadpole attached to an external leg through a single bridge would be reducible, so is excluded here.
Figure 1.
One-loop two-point and four-point one-particle-irreducible graphs in quartic scalar theory
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The Euclidean massive loop integral at has , so . Wick rotation and the propagator/vertex factors give the two-point loop amplitude , whose pole is . A mass counterterm contributes and cancels it when .
Each four-point bubble diagram has pole , with the external coupling-dimension factor restored in the local vertex. Summing its three channels gives the quartic counterterm . Therefore the one-loop massive phi-fourth counterterms are exactly
There is no one-loop wave-function renormalization, since the tadpole is independent of external momentum. Vacuum graphs would additionally require a vacuum-energy subtraction.
In the minimal subtraction scheme, the bare coupling is
Its dimension is ; the renormalized is dimensionless. Differentiate at fixed , writing :
Solving through quadratic order gives the engineering term in a dimensionally continued beta function and the one-loop quartic scalar beta function
The first term comes from the coupling's engineering dimension; the second is the quantum contribution to the renormalization-group beta function.
For fixed , the whole is not literally as : its linear term is present. Interpret the final instruction as keeping terms through quadratic order. Set . Then is an upward parabola, negative between its two zeros and positive above the interacting zero.
Figure 2.
Quartic beta function below four dimensions, with arrows toward increasing renormalization scale
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For positive initial coupling , the quartic running coupling below four dimensions follows by solving the linear equation for :
If , then as and as . If it stays fixed; the zero solution also stays fixed. If , the infrared limit is still , but the ultraviolet evolution reaches a Landau pole at the finite scale
Thus this branch cannot be continued physically to using the one-loop approximation. These are statements about the quartic coupling direction. The Wilson-Fisher fixed point of the full scalar theory also has a thermal relevant direction at the Wilson-Fisher fixed point; approaching the critical theory requires mass tuning. For negative initial coupling, the quartic potential is unstable: the same formula tends to zero from below in the ultraviolet and reaches a pole at finite scale toward the infrared.
Use the material-first nominal stress tensor convention , with the deformation gradient. For any fixed reference material subvolume with outward unit normal , conservation of energy is
Here is body force per mass, is heat supply per mass and is nominal heat flux. Using momentum conservation to remove the kinetic energy balance gives the integral Lagrangian internal energy balance:
The integral Lagrangian entropy inequality is
where is temperature and is the thermodynamic entropy flux.
Since the subvolume is arbitrary, the divergence theorem gives
Expand and eliminate the heat supply between these relations. The Clausius-Duhem inequality becomes
Under the usual local constitutive independence assumptions, the reversible mechanical and thermal variations can have either sign. The Coleman-Noll procedure therefore imposes
Define the thermodynamic force conjugate to an internal variable by . The energy balance and the remaining entropy constraint now give, respectively,
Use the conventional kinematic plume fluxes
Then is the volume flux, the dimensional mass flux, the dimensional momentum flux, and the kinematic buoyancy flux. Calling a mass flux uses a density-normalized convention: the reference density has been suppressed. If density-weighted momentum and buoyancy fluxes are desired, multiply and by the same constant throughout. Here the conventional kinematic definitions make the Boussinesq approximation explicit.
For an upward plume with , the inverse relations are
The volume conservation, vertical momentum conservation, and buoyancy balances from part a become
Here the vertical momentum conservation equation uses in the inertia and retains in the buoyancy force. The ambient has no imposed vertical momentum at entrainment.
To classify the resulting partial differential equations, work in the nonsingular primitive variables with . Subtract times the volume equation from the momentum equation and times the volume equation from the buoyancy equation. This gives
The principal matrix is therefore
All three characteristic speeds are real and equal to , so the model is a hyperbolic system if that term means only reality of the characteristic roots. However, for , requires , leaving only two independent eigenvectors. Hence
This weak hyperbolicity of the unsteady top-hat plume prevents a complete set of independent characteristic fields. For example, freezing in the homogeneous principal part gives and . A Fourier perturbation of wave number therefore produces a term proportional to in . Real characteristic roots alone do not provide uniform control of high-frequency perturbations. The flux-variable transformation above is invertible in the stated region, so changing to does not remove this degeneracy.
Write and . The proposed gauge-field transformation law becomes . Consequently
Both and its gauge covariant derivative therefore transform as the same multiplet, with no derivative of the local parameter left over. The original algebraic invariance of the Lagrangian density now applies pointwise to , so this constructs the local symmetry.
Also transform by . Antisymmetry gives , so the source coupling is invariant. Let denote the functional derivative at a point. Vary the action functional and integrate the derivative of by parts, taking the local parameter to have compact support:
Since every is arbitrary, its coefficient vanishes. This proves the requested local identity, including the derivative sign and the order of the structure-constant indices.
For the generating functional, the integral of the first term is zero as a change-of-variable identity:
The divergence of this vector field in field space is proportional to . Thus an invariant regulated functional measure, with no gauge anomaly, leaves no Jacobian term. Inserting the classical identity into the integral gives
The same first-order differential operator annihilates the connected generating functional , because . Its source term is .
For the specified Legendre transform, vary . Since , the terms involving cancel, leaving
Antisymmetry also gives . Substitution in the identity for , followed by multiplication by , proves the background gauge invariance of a scalar effective action:
The derivatives of the quantum effective action are proper, amputated one-particle-irreducible vertices. At each loop order they receive contributions from one-particle-irreducible Feynman diagrams with the indicated external scalar legs, including tree vertices and the required counterterms. Diagrams which disconnect after cutting one internal line are not additional proper-vertex contributions. Translation invariance supplies the overall momentum-conserving delta function factored out in the definition. The signs of these vertices must follow the chosen overall convention for .
Differentiate the effective-action identity twice with respect to and and set . In an invariant zero-field vacuum this gives the Ward identity contact terms
The term proportional to vanishes. With the printed Fourier factors , integration by parts turns into . The first delta function combines with , and the second combines with . Using and symmetry of the scalar two-point kernel then yields
This derivation fixes the relative signs independently of any vertex rule.
There is an overall-sign inconsistency in the final printed example. At tree level, stationarity of the source integral gives , hence the specified transform gives . For the free scalar multiplet this implies, after factoring out the delta function,
The mixed result follows by expanding to first order in : its contribution is . The two scalar derivatives yield . Momentum conservation gives
so both sides of the Ward identity equal . Because the scalar theory is Gaussian for prescribed , its fluctuation determinant depends on but not on ; it cannot add further two-scalar vertices. Thus this quadratic verification is sufficient, not merely the first term of an omitted scalar-loop correction.
The printed mixed vertex instead has a minus sign. It satisfies the same Ward identity if one uses the opposite effective-action convention at tree level, because its two-point vertex is then as well. Either overall convention works, but the printed Legendre transform and printed mixed vertex cannot both be used unchanged. For example, with and a nonzero generator, they give opposite sides of the claimed identity.
First regulate the Gaussian functional integral, separating any constant zero mode. Integration by parts gives with positive kinetic operator on the nonzero modes. Complete the square:
A translation of the regulated integration variables then yields
The sign is essential: the kernel in the negative source exponent is the negative of the positive Gaussian covariance. The source-independent prefactor is formally , with the prime denoting the excluded zero mode and normalization depending on the regulated measure. This is the Euclidean scalar source functional and Laplacian sign convention.
Consequently . In the plane,
up to harmonic additions fixed by boundary and infrared conditions. Away from this logarithm is harmonic. Integrating its outward normal derivative around a small circle centered at gives , establishing the distributional delta coefficient. The arbitrary infrared length cancels for a source of zero total integral. On a compact regulated worldsheet the zero-mode-projected equation has the corresponding constant subtraction from the delta function.
For the string action , the nonzero-mode covariance is
Compute initially with Euclidean target coordinates and restore target Lorentzian contractions by analytic continuation. Treat the physical tachyon vertices as normal-ordered exponentials; this removes coincident self-contractions. Completing the Gaussian square with the imaginary delta-function sources, or applying Wick contractions, gives
after fixing the vertex normalization. Each cross-contraction has the sign , canceling the negative logarithmic covariance, which explains the positive exponent.
The constant target-space mode must also be integrated:
This momentum-conservation factor is momentum dependent and cannot literally be absorbed into the PDF's momentum-independent . Its intended position integral is the amplitude with this overall delta function stripped off, restricted to conserving momenta. In that convention,
The logarithmic infrared constant only gives a fixed normalization on the common external mass shell, since . Thus the Gaussian determinant and normalization are independent of the scattering invariants. To make the tree position integral finite one also divides by the residual Möbius gauge volume, equivalently fixes three insertions with their ghost factor. The four-position expression is its formal unfixed representation.
Under with determinant one,
At insertion , the Koba-Nielsen factor therefore contributes . Momentum conservation makes the exponent . On the tachyon mass shell , it is four and cancels the measure's exponent . Hence the full integration density is Möbius invariant. The correlator factor alone is covariant; the density including is invariant.
The supplied Virasoro–Shapiro amplitude has generic simple poles when , giving
and likewise in the other channels. These are exchanges of closed-string states with equal left and right levels : the tachyon, the massless sector and the massive tower. At special kinematics zeros or crossed-channel coincidences need to be handled by the full constrained amplitude; numerator poles are not three independent sequences of unrelated singularities.
To isolate the three-tachyon coupling, first use momentum conservation and :
At the tachyon pole , put and . The relation gives . Thus and , and the entire gamma-function ratio cancels to one. The remaining numerator is , while its denominator tends to . Hence
With the exchange convention and canonically normalized external legs, factorization therefore gives , or up to its unobservable overall sign. A convention using the opposite propagator denominator or factors of changes the corresponding amplitude phase. Because itself is unspecified, the residue fixes this relation, not an absolute numerical coupling independent of normalization.
Work in an inertial frame, take all masses to be constant, and assume the internal forces obey the pairwise relation from Newton's third law . For the angular momentum result, also assume these pair forces are central, so is parallel to and its pair torque vanishes. The equations from Newton's second law are
Summing them and pairing the internal forces gives
About a fixed point , define the total angular momentum and external torque by
Differentiation produces no velocity term because . Grouping internal terms into pairs gives
Each final cross product is zero by centrality, proving . Equal and opposite internal forces give momentum conservation when the total external force is zero, but do not in general make their internal torques cancel; the central-force assumption supplies that extra step.
Let and let the centre of mass be , so . For an arbitrary moving reference point , the same differentiation gives
Taking , the extra term is . Therefore the corresponding angular momentum about the centre of mass satisfies
Its definition using velocities relative to agrees with the one above, since makes . Thus this result remains true even when the centre of mass accelerates.
Finally take the common mass to be and , with constant . About either a fixed point or the centre of mass,
The angular-momentum equation becomes . Multiplying by the integrating factor gives , hence the angular momentum decay under uniform linear drag is
The common mass and common drag coefficient ensure that the same decay factor applies to every term.
Use and . In the interaction picture, fields evolve with the free Hamiltonian, while interactions enter the state evolution through the Dyson series. Write the Klein-Gordon field as , with the positive-frequency part of a quantum field containing annihilation operators and containing creation operators. The mode normalization in the PDF corresponds to and .
The time-ordered product places fields with the latest time on the left. For two bosonic insertions,
The normal-ordered product instead moves every creation operator to the left of every annihilation operator, without adding the commutators generated by that rearrangement. Its vacuum expectation value is zero whenever a nonempty set of free-field factors remains.
The mode commutator gives the positive-frequency Wightman function
Define the Feynman propagator here to be the two-point function itself, rather than that function divided by . Then
Equivalently,
The positive-energy pole is below and the negative-energy pole above the real axis. Closing the energy contour integral below for positive time separation and above for negative time separation gives the two terms above. Thus this is the scalar Feynman propagator pole prescription, and . In particular, : the difference between time ordering and normal ordering is the Wick contraction.
For free bosonic fields, the Wick theorem states
where runs over all sets of disjoint pairs of indices, including the empty set, and is the set of paired indices. The empty normal-ordered product equals one. This is an operator identity for free fields, understood with smearing or a regulator when products of operator-valued distributions require it.
Here is an inductive proof of the scalar Wick theorem. Sort the arguments chronologically so that is the latest. For any remaining set , commuting the annihilation part of through the creation parts in a normal-ordered product gives
The creation part of is already in the correct position. Every commutator on the right is a scalar, so no further operator rearrangement is needed for it. Because is latest, that commutator is . Assume the Wick theorem for the other fields and multiply its expansion by . The first term of the displayed identity gives every pairing in which index 1 is unpaired; the sum gives every pairing in which 1 is paired with exactly one . Each final partial pairing has exactly one such construction. The one-field identity supplies the base case, proving the theorem by mathematical induction. Applying time ordering restores arbitrary argument order.
Taking the vacuum expectation value retains only complete pairings. Odd free correlators vanish; for example the free scalar four-point function is . These facts explain why propagators are the edges of Feynman diagrams.
For the interacting quartic scalar field theory, the interaction Hamiltonian density is . With a single time ordering acting on external insertions and interaction vertices, the unnormalized numerator expands as
Apply the proved Wick theorem term by term. Each complete pairing connects external insertions and four-legged vertices by Feynman propagators. There are assignments of four distinct incident legs at a vertex, canceling its factorial. Permuting identical integrated vertices cancels the corresponding part of . Permutations still leaving the labeled graph unchanged give its Feynman-diagram symmetry factor. For example,
whereas the two-point tadpole diagram has coefficient , because choosing the two vertex legs contracted with the labeled external fields gives possibilities and the other two contract with each other.
Thus the position-space rules attach to every edge, to every four-legged interaction vertex, and divide by the graph's Feynman-diagram symmetry factor. Fourier transformation gives the momentum-space Feynman rules:
Enforce momentum conservation at each vertex, retaining the overall four-momentum delta function. External lines of these correlation functions remain unamputated. The unnormalized expression includes Vacuum Feynman diagrams; dividing by cancels those disconnected vacuum factors. They should not be discarded without that normalization.
There is a time-ordering convention in the printed correlation-function notation worth making explicit. The usual interacting correlator uses the single global time ordering in above. If the displayed is read literally with outside that ordering, the external block and the vertex block are separately time ordered: their cross-contractions are because each external field stands to the left of every vertex field. The same pairing construction then uses for lines within either block and for lines between blocks; in momentum space the latter is . This literal product is different from the conventional globally time-ordered interacting correlator, and does not have the ordinary external Feynman propagators derived above.
Assume the ambient fluid has zero downslope velocity, no bed drag, and an entrainment coefficient . The entraining shallow-water layer receives volume at rate , but neither excess buoyancy nor downslope momentum from that ambient fluid. Consequently volume conservation, conservation of excess buoyancy, and momentum conservation give
The pressure contribution is the integral of the hydrostatic pressure from part (a). The last source is the downslope component of the gravitational force.
With , the equivalent equations are
The last term is the momentum required to accelerate newly entrained fluid. For variables , the matrix of the spatial derivatives is
Thus it is a strictly hyperbolic system for and . At all three characteristic speeds coincide and the matrix is not diagonalizable. The exclusion of that angle presumes the physical range with : allowing an overhanging channel with would also destroy hyperbolicity.
Let be the gas mass ejected in a short interval, and let be the stationary dust mass acquired. The rocket mass change is . Before the interval the momentum of the rocket and this dust is , because the incoming dust is at rest. Afterwards it is
to first order; changing the gas ejection speed by affects only second-order terms. Momentum conservation, with no external force, therefore gives
Dividing by the time interval produces the rocket equation with stationary mass accretion:
The incoming material's zero initial momentum is essential: accelerating it to the rocket's speed consumes part of the thrust.
Use a mostly-plus target Minkowski spacetime metric and restore the string tension by . After Wick rotation, the Polyakov action on a Riemann surface is
The Polyakov path integral integrates over embeddings and worldsheet metrics, dividing by worldsheet diffeomorphisms and Weyl transformations. For a consistent flat bosonic string theory, take the critical dimension of the bosonic string . Conformal gauge turns the embedding fields into free scalars; its Faddeev-Popov determinant is represented by the bc system. The remaining integrations are over worldsheet moduli and external insertion points.
A tachyon vertex operator is
The worldsheet Green function is . The operator product expansion with the holomorphic stress-energy tensor gives conformal weights . An integrated string vertex operator must have weights , so the mass-shell condition is , or tachyonic mass parameter .
At lowest order in the string coupling, the worldsheet is a Riemann sphere. For four external states, three insertion points can be fixed by a Möbius transformation. In the worldsheet ghost field description these three vertices carry , while the fourth is integrated. The three-point worldsheet ghost correlator gives the squared product of the three fixed-point separations, precisely the sphere gauge fixing for four string vertices factor. Thus fixing three points is a gauge choice, rather than deleting three integrations without their Jacobian.
The integral over the constant embedding worldsheet zero mode gives . The remaining Gaussian integral, using normal ordering to remove self-contractions, gives the Koba-Nielsen factor
Set ; the vertex at infinity is defined with its conformal-weight factor. Let all momenta be incoming and define
The mass-shell condition and momentum conservation imply . Since and similarly for the pair , the sphere tachyon position integral becomes
Here depends on the normalization of external string vertex operators; it does not affect the kinematic dependence.
To evaluate the remaining worldsheet modulus, put and . The complex beta integral is
For example, this identity follows by writing the two powers as Schwinger-parameter Gamma integrals, doing the two-dimensional Gaussian integral, and changing the two positive parameters to their sum and ratio. The complex beta integral first holds for and ; the scattering result is its analytic continuation. The third gamma-function argument is . Absorbing into , the result is the tree-level four-tachyon amplitude, the Virasoro–Shapiro amplitude:
It is symmetric in the three Mandelstam variables and has generic poles at , matching the bosonic string mass spectrum. The formula is the leading term of string perturbation theory. Higher orders are constructed by the same Polyakov path integral prescription on higher-genus worldsheets, with four marked points and the corresponding ghost and worldsheet moduli measure; genus has coupling power .
Put and in the squeezed bispectrum configuration. Then and the three symmetric combinations in the supplied expression have limits
The first two terms inside the bracket cancel, leaving . The full bracket is therefore , and
The is kept in the normalization of used by the paper; it should not be introduced a second time by changing the primordial bispectrum convention.
Momentum conservation makes the three vectors close into a triangle. As , the two short-wavelength vectors approach equal magnitude and opposite direction, producing a thin, nearly collapsed triangle. In real space the mode varies slowly over a region containing many short wavelengths, so it modulates their local statistics. For a single adiabatic inflationary clock this is a local spatial dilation, the basis of the single-field inflation squeezed-limit consistency relation. If is the Hubble-flow convention , the scalar spectral index in Hubble slow-roll parameters gives to first order. This identification must not be made with the potential slow-roll without converting conventions.
Let the fluid approach a uniform, quiescent state at infinity. Use the outward unit normal vector , pointing from the object into the fluid. Write for the Heaviside step function, , and . With the viscous stress tensor , define
Thus is the Lighthill stress tensor, and is the surface loading exerted on the fluid. The total force on the object has the opposite sign. Extend by zero inside the object. Since the boundary is fixed and impermeable, , and the distributional mass conservation and momentum conservation equations are
For example, the surface contribution to the momentum equation is . Differentiating the first equation in time and subtracting the divergence of the second gives the fixed-body Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings equation:
There is no acoustic thickness noise: a fixed impermeable boundary injects no mass. Apply the retarded acoustic Green function , where . The supplied surface-delta identity converts the loading term to a surface integral. For an exterior observer, the required integral equation is
This acoustic analogy is an exact rearrangement of the fluid equations; source approximations enter later. In the distant linear acoustic region, .
The acoustic far field requires observer distance much larger than the source extent and , so derivatives of the retarded phase dominate derivatives of . The acoustic compact-source approximation requires , so the source's differential propagation delays can be neglected. These conditions concern different lengths and neither implies the other. Put , , and define the loading and stress moments
The leading compact acoustic far field is
The surface term is an acoustic dipole; the volume term is an acoustic quadrupole. The plus sign of the loading term follows from the minus sign of its spatial divergence and the derivative of retarded time.
For the power comparison, assume low Mach number , high Reynolds number, eddy size , characteristic time , and stress magnitude . Keep the prescribed turbulent region and its leading volume stress comparable when inserting the object; neglect changes of source statistics and exceptional cancellations of the leading moments. Compactness follows from . Since and the outgoing acoustic intensity is , the volume power is
If the object's size is comparable to and its fluctuating resultant loading is , then
Angular factors and dimensionless loading coefficients have been omitted. The acoustic dipole and acoustic quadrupole interference vanishes in the leading power integrated over a full sphere, by odd angular parity; individual directions can show interference.
A size threshold also requires a loading model. For a small nonseparating object of size in an approximately inviscid, smoothly varying incident eddy, a spatially uniform pressure has zero resultant on its closed surface. The first surviving loading is the pressure-gradient or added mass force, . Under these explicitly stated assumptions,
The two mechanisms become comparable at ; for smaller objects the cases with and without the object have the same leading order of power. This is the small-body loading-noise threshold. It is not a geometry-independent size law: a separated drag force fluctuating on the original eddy time instead gives and . If both force and time are set by body-scale eddies, , their loading power is and comparison with the original volume source gives . Each estimate states which source time and force it uses.
The physical distinction is momentum conservation. Unforced turbulence in a fluid supplies internal stresses, whose net-force contribution cancels and leaves acoustic quadrupole radiation. The supported object exchanges momentum with the fluid and the external support, permitting a time-dependent resultant force and acoustic dipole radiation. One fewer retarded derivative makes the loading radiation more efficient at low Mach number.