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Second-order partition function of a non-interacting chiral fluid in 3+1 dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We compute the partition function for non-interacting chiral fermions at second order in a derivative expansion of an arbitrary time-independent gravitational and gauge background. We find that Pauli-Villars regularization of the vacuum part is needed to get consistent results. We use our results to discuss some features of the non-dissipative constitutive relations of second order hydrodynamics.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1408.0165,
  title  = {Second-order partition function of a non-interacting chiral fluid in 3+1 dimensions},
  author = {Eugenio Megias and Manuel Valle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.0165},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

27 pages; v2 minor changes in sec. 5 and discussion improved in secs. 6 and 7, references added, version to appear in JHEP

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