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Universality Classes of Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: Foundations
L Gavassino1, M Disconzi1, J Noronha2
1Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Abstract:
A general organizing principle is proposed that can be used to derive the equations of motion describing the near-equilibrium dynamics of causal and thermodynamically stable relativistic systems. The latter are found to display some new type of universal behavior near equilibrium that allows them to be grouped into universality classes defined by their degrees of freedom, information content, and conservation laws. The universality classes expose a number of surprising equivalences between different theories, shedding new light on the near-equilibrium behavior of relativistic systems.
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