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Spin Hydrodynamics and Symmetric Energy-Momentum Tensors -- A current induced by the spin vorticity --

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-05-12 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We discuss a puzzle in relativistic spin hydrodynamics; in the previous formulation the spin source from the antisymmetric part of the canonical energy-momentum tensor (EMT) is crucial. The Belinfante improved EMT is pseudo-gauge transformed from the canonical EMT and is usually a physically sensible choice especially when gauge fields are coupled as in magnetohydrodynamics, but the Belinfante EMT has no antisymmetric part. We find that pseudo-transformed entropy currents are physically inequivalent in nonequilibrium situations. We also identify a current induced by the spin vorticity read from the Belinfante symmetric EMT.

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@article{arxiv.2010.01608,
  title  = {Spin Hydrodynamics and Symmetric Energy-Momentum Tensors -- A current induced by the spin vorticity --},
  author = {Kenji Fukushima and Shi Pu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.01608},
  year   = {2021}
}

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6 pages, no figure