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Lifshitz Hydrodynamics from Lifshitz Black Branes with Linear Momentum

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-23 v1

Abstract

We construct a new class of 4-dimensional z=2 Lifshitz black branes that have a nonzero linear momentum. These are solutions of an Einstein-Proca-dilaton model that can be obtained by Scherk-Schwarz circle reduction of AdS_5 gravity coupled to a free real scalar field. The boundary of a bulk Lifshitz space-time is a Newton-Cartan geometry. We show that the fluid dual to the moving Lifshitz black brane leads to a novel form of Lifshitz hydrodynamics on a Newton-Cartan space-time. Since the linear momentum of the black brane cannot be obtained by a boost transformation the velocity of the fluid or rather, by boundary rotational invariance, its magnitude plays the role of a chemical potential. The conjugate dual variable is mass density. The Lifshitz perfect fluid can be thought of as arising from a Schroedinger perfect fluid with broken particle number symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1606.09543,
  title  = {Lifshitz Hydrodynamics from Lifshitz Black Branes with Linear Momentum},
  author = {Jelle Hartong and Niels A. Obers and Marco Sanchioni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.09543},
  year   = {2016}
}

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26 pages + 20 pages appendix