https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12824-4
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Third-order relativistic fluid dynamics at finite density in a general hydrodynamic frame
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Universidade Federal do Pará, Campus Salinópolis, 68721-000, Salinópolis, Pará, Brazil
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Unidade Acadêmica de Física, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Rua Aprígio Veloso, 58429-900, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil
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Laboratório de Astrofísica Teórica e Observacional, Departamento de Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, 45650-000, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil
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Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Rua Rui Barbosa 710, 44380-000, Cruz das Almas, Bahia, Brazil
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Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Avenida João Naves de Ávila 2121, 38400-902, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Avenida dos Estados 5001, 09210-580, Santo André, SP, Brazil
Received:
8
January
2024
Accepted:
17
April
2024
Published online:
19
May
2024
The motion of water is governed by the Navier–Stokes equations, which are complemented by the continuity equation to ensure local mass conservation. In this work, we construct the relativistic generalization of these equations through a gradient expansion for a fluid with a conserved charge in a curved d-dimensional spacetime. We adopt a general hydrodynamic frame and introduce the irreducible-structure (IS) algorithm, which is based on derivatives of the expansion scalar and the shear and vorticity tensors. By this method, we systematically generate all permissible gradients up to a specified order and derive the most comprehensive constitutive relations for a charged fluid, accurate to third-order in the gradient expansion. These constitutive relations are formulated to apply to ordinary (nonconformal) and conformally invariant charged fluids. Furthermore, we examine the frame dependence of the transport coefficients for a nonconformal charged fluid up to the third order in the gradient expansion. The frame dependence of the scalar, vector, and tensor parts of the constitutive relations is obtained in terms of the (field redefinitions of the) fundamental hydrodynamic variables. Managing the frame dependencies of the constitutive relations is challenging due to their non-linear character. However, in the linear regime, the higher-order transformations become tractable, enabling the identification of a set of frame-invariant coefficients. Subsequently, the equations obtained in the linear regime are solved in momentum space, yielding dispersion relations for shear, sound, and diffusive modes for a non-conformal charged fluid, expressed in terms of a set of frame-invariant transport coefficients.
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