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Transient Relativistic Fluid Dynamics in a General Hydrodynamic Frame

Nuclear Theory 2022-07-26 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We propose a new theory of second-order viscous relativistic hydrodynamics which does not impose any frame conditions on the choice of the hydrodynamic variables. It differs from Mueller-Israel-Stewart theory by including additional transient degrees of freedom, and its first-order truncation reduces to Bemfica-Disconzi-Noronha-Kovtun theory. Conditions for causality and stability are explicitly given in the conformal regime. As an illustrative example, we consider Bjorken flow solutions to our equations and identify variables which make a hydrodynamic attractor manifest.

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@article{arxiv.2105.01034,
  title  = {Transient Relativistic Fluid Dynamics in a General Hydrodynamic Frame},
  author = {Jorge Noronha and Michał Spaliński and Enrico Speranza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.01034},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

10 pages, 1 figure, version accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

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