English

General relativistic heat flow from first order hydrodynamics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-05-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Following the recently proposed stable and causal first-order relativistic hydrodynamics by Bemfica, Disconzi, and Noronha, we find the heat flow equation in the presence of gravity for a non-viscous fluid, which suffers heat dissipation. The derivation is confined to static and stationary backgrounds. We find that in the presence of gravity, the heat flux times a redshift factor is conserved. Then for radial heat flow, the temperature profiles are obtained from the heat equation when the gravity is sourced by Schwarzschild, Schwarzschild-dS, Kerr and Kerr-dS black holes, respectively. Consequently, the chemical potential profile is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2412.02364,
  title  = {General relativistic heat flow from first order hydrodynamics},
  author = {Bhera Ram and Bibhas Ranjan Majhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.02364},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Corrected version, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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