Leading order magnetic field dependence of conductivities in anomalous hydrodynamics

We show that literature results claimed for the magnetic field dependence of the longitudinal conductivity in anomalous first-order hydrodynamics are frame dependent at this derivative order. In particular, we focus on (3+1)-dimensional hydrodynamics in the presence of a constant O(∂) magnetic field with a U(1) chiral anomaly and demonstrate that, for constitutive relations up to and including order one in derivatives, the anomaly drops out of the longitudinal conductivity. In particular, magnetic field dependent terms that were previously found in the literature only enter the nonzero frequency thermoelectric conductivities through explicitly frame dependent pieces indicating that they are not physical. This issue can be avoided entirely by incorporating the magnetic field into the fluid's equilibrium state.