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Fluid/Gravity Correspondence, Local Wald Entropy Current and Gravitational Anomaly

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-10-09 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We propose, in the framework of the fluid/gravity correspondence, a definition for a local horizon entropy current for higher-curvature gravitational theories. The current is well-defined to first order in fluid gradients for general gravity actions with an algebraic dependence on the Riemann tensor. As a detailed example, we consider five-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory with a mixed gauge-gravitational Chern-Simons term. In this theory, we construct the proposed entropy current on a charged black-brane background, and show that it has a non-negative divergence. Moreover, a complete correspondence between the charged black-brane horizon's dynamics and the hydrodynamics of an anomalous four-dimensional field theory is established. Our proposed entropy current is then found to coincide with the entropy current of the anomalous field theory fluid.

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@article{arxiv.1202.2469,
  title  = {Fluid/Gravity Correspondence, Local Wald Entropy Current and Gravitational Anomaly},
  author = {Shira Chapman and Yasha Neiman and Yaron Oz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.2469},
  year   = {2013}
}

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44 pages

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