Field redefinitions and evolutions in relativistic Navier-Stokes

Autor: Yago Bea, Pau Figueras
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2024, Iss 11, Pp 1-37 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2024)110
Popis: Abstract In recent years the equations of relativistic first-order viscous hydrodynamics, that is, the relativistic version of Navier-Stokes, have been shown to be well posed and causal under appropriate field redefinitions, also known as hydrodynamic frames. We perform real-time evolutions of these equations for a conformal fluid and explore, quantitatively, the consequences of using different causal frames for different sets of initial data. By defining specific criteria, we make precise and provide evidence for the statement that the arbitrarily chosen frame does not affect the physics up to first order, as long as the system is in the effective field theory regime. Motivated by the physics of the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions we also explore systems which are marginally in the effective field theory regime, finding that even under these circumstances the first order physics is robust under field redefinitions.
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