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Nonabelian fluids and helicities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-04-25 v2 Fluid Dynamics

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 NN-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.

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@article{arxiv.2502.13765,
  title  = {Nonabelian fluids and helicities},
  author = {Horatiu Nastase and Jacob Sonnenschein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.13765},
  year   = {2025}
}

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41 pages, 2 figures; citations added

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