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Stable and causal relativistic Navier-Stokes equations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-06-12 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Relativistic Navier-Stokes equations express the conservation of the energy-momentum tensor and the particle number current in terms of the local hydrodynamic variables: temperature, fluid velocity, and the chemical potential. We show that the viscous-fluid equations are stable and causal if one adopts suitable non-equilibrium definitions of the hydrodynamic variables.

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@article{arxiv.2004.04102,
  title  = {Stable and causal relativistic Navier-Stokes equations},
  author = {Raphael E. Hoult and Pavel Kovtun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.04102},
  year   = {2020}
}

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V2: Appendix on the Landau-Lifshitz frame added

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