FLUCTUATION-DISSIPATION THEOREM FOR CONTRACTED DESCRIPTIONS OF MARKOV-PROCESSES

It is shown that if the Onsager-Casimir relations and the fluctuationdissipation theorem are valid for a stationary, Gaussian, Markov process in an N-dimensional space, then these relations are valid when the process is projected into a subspace of the original space. Both time-reversal-even and time-reversal-odd variables are allowed. Previous derivations of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem for Brownian motion from fluctuating hydrodynamics are special cases of the present result. For the Brownian motion problem, the fluctuation-dissipation theorem is proven for the case of a compressible, thermally conducting fluid with a nonlocal equation of state. Arbitrary slip boundary conditions are considered as well. © 1979 Plenum Publishing Corporation.