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A fluid dual to charged large D membrane paradigm

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-18 v1

Abstract

According to the formulation of the charged large DD membrane paradigm, an arbitrary dynamic black hole solution to a theory of gravity with a U(1)U(1) gauge field is dual to the dynamics of a membrane in a non-gravitational background. This membrane is endowed with a stress-energy tensor and a charge current, whose conservation equations govern its dynamics. In this work, we demonstrate that the dynamics of these membrane configurations (at the leading nontrivial order in 1/D1/D) can be mapped to a relativistic charged fluid. Establishing a correspondence for asymptotically flat black holes with a particular class of fluid systems. Unlike the standard AdS/Hydrodynamics correspondence, this dual fluid does not reside on an asymptotic boundary, but is localized strictly on the non-gravitational membrane worldvolume. By evaluating the system in both the Eckart and Landau frames, we systematically extract the out-of-equilibrium transport coefficients. We find that the fluid is governed by a negative effective thermal conductivity and a negative heat capacity, a mechanism that enforces thermodynamic stability in agreement with the quasinormal mode damping in the large DD Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole geometry.

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@article{arxiv.2605.15797,
  title  = {A fluid dual to charged large D membrane paradigm},
  author = {Supratim Halder and Manu Kurian and Mangesh Mandlik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.15797},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages, 9 pages appendix, 1 table

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