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Causality and stability in relativistic hydrodynamic theory -- a choice to be endured

Nuclear Theory 2024-08-29 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In this work, it has been indicated that the key features requisite for preserving causality and stability of the popularly existing relativistic hydrodynamic theories, can be translated into each other. It has been shown here, that a generic `fluid frame transformation' including all orders of gradient corrections can recast a stable-causal hydrodynamic theory that (i) only includes fundamental fluid variables (velocity and temperature) but requires to be in a general hydrodynamic frame other than the Landau or Eckart, to a theory that is (ii) pathology free in Landau frame but needs newer degrees of freedom. Since frame choice provides the first principle field definitions and degrees of freedom indicate the number of conserved quantities, the causality and stability of a theory seem to require a consensus between the two unless the derivative correction goes to infinity. The key finding of this work is to indicate a connection between these different formalisms, that lead to a causal and stable hydrodynamic theory.

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@article{arxiv.2407.18997,
  title  = {Causality and stability in relativistic hydrodynamic theory -- a choice to be endured},
  author = {Sayantani Bhattacharyya and Sukanya Mitra and Shuvayu Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.18997},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Version accepted in Physics Letters B; This paper is a companion paper of arXiv:2312.16407 [nucl-th] which is an elaborate version of this paper