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A note on gravity and fluid dynamic correspondence on a null hypersurface

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-12-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In the extensive literature on fluid-gravity correspondence formulated on null hypersurfaces, the Carrollian and membrane paradigm approaches have predominantly employed a timelike foliation. By contrast, within the null foliation formalism, only the momentum conservation law, expressed through the Damour-Navier-Stokes (DNS) equation, has been established. In this work, we revisit the null foliation formalism for a generic null hypersurface and extend it to include the energy conservation law, continuity equation, and related relations, all derived from the covariant conservation of an appropriately defined energy-momentum tensor. This development complements the existing literature on the fluid description of gravitational dynamics in the null foliation framework.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2411.06914,
  title  = {A note on gravity and fluid dynamic correspondence on a null hypersurface},
  author = {Krishnakanta Bhattacharya and Sumit Dey and Bibhas Ranjan Majhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.06914},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

34 pages, no figure, To appear in Physica Scripta

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