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Galilean fluids from non-relativistic gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-08-30 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The 1/c1/c-expansion of general relativity appropriately sourced by matter can be used to derive an action principle for Newtonian gravity. The gravitational part of this action is known as non-relativistic gravity (NRG). It is possible to source NRG differently and in such a way that one can construct solutions that are not described by Newtonian gravity (as they do not admit a notion of absolute time). It is possible to include a negative cosmological constant such that NRG admits a non-relativistic AdS solution. This non-relativistic AdS vacuum has Killing vectors that form the Galilean conformal algebra and a boundary that admits a conformal class of Newton-Cartan geometries. This begs the question of whether there exists an analogue of the fluid/gravity correspondence for NRG. In this paper we derive a non-relativistic AdS brane solution of NRG and confirm that it corresponds to the 1/c21/c^2-expansion of the AdS black brane geometry. We perform a Galilean boost of the non-relativistic AdS brane and derive the associated boundary energy-momentum tensor. We then show that this is the energy-momentum tensor of a massless Galilean fluid and explain how this is linked to the conformal isometries of the boundary. Along the way, we also present several new results for the theory of non-relativistic gravity itself. In particular we present a rewriting that greatly shortens and simplifies the equations of motion of the NRG action.

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@article{arxiv.2408.16734,
  title  = {Galilean fluids from non-relativistic gravity},
  author = {Jelle Hartong and Aditya Mehra and Jørgen Musaeus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.16734},
  year   = {2024}
}

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45 pages, 4 appendices

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