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Relativistic dissipation: from hydrodynamics to effective field theory
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Pavel Kovtun
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- University of Victoria
Abstract
What is the effective description of macroscopic states in a relativistic theory? Going one step beyond thermodynamics, the simplest classical effective description is given by hydrodynamics. It is well known that relativistic dissipative fluid-dynamical equations found in classic textbooks (Weinberg, Landau & Lifshitz) predict violations of causality and non-existence of equilibrium. In this talk, I will discuss how one can make sense of dissipative relativistic hydrodynamics. Time permitting, I will also discuss why some of the long-distance, late-time predictions of classical hydrodynamics are not universal.
Relativistic dissipation: from hydrodynamics to effective field theory
Venue
Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB
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The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy
James Clerk Maxwell Building, 4305
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3FD
UK
School of Physics and Astronomy
James Clerk Maxwell Building, 4305
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3FD
UK
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