Nonabelian fluids and helicities
Abstract
In analogy with the non-Abelian gauge helicities conserved in time for ``null fields", that we have defined previously, in this paper we first define non-Abelian fluid helicities and then total non-Abelian helicities for combined non-Abelian fluid and gauge fields. For a U(N) group the helicities considered are for both gluonic-type fluids, composed of particles in the adjoint representation, and quark-type fluids, in the -dimensional Cartan subalgebra. We write down various Lagrangian formulations for the uncoupled and coupled systems. In each case we determine the equations of motion, symmetries, and a Hamiltonian formulation. Taking the velocity of the fluid in the adjoint representation, we find that in the case of the gluonic fluid, we can write a non-Abelian gluonic fluid Euler-Yang-Mills equation that conserves the defined helicities, and comes from a Lagrangian.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2502.13765,
title = {Nonabelian fluids and helicities},
author = {Horatiu Nastase and Jacob Sonnenschein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13765},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
41 pages, 2 figures; citations added