Evolution of Non-Gaussian Hydrodynamic Fluctuations

Abstract

In the context of the search for the QCD critical point using non-Gaussian fluctuations, we obtain the evolution equations for non-Gaussian cumulants to the leading order of the systematic expansion in the magnitude of thermal fluctuations. We develop a diagrammatic technique in which the leading order contributions are given by tree diagrams. We introduce a Wigner transform for multipoint correlators and derive the evolution equations for three- and four-point Wigner functions for the problem of nonlinear stochastic diffusion with multiplicative noise.