Wednesday, January 16, 2013

1301.3170 (Christopher Eling et al.)

Conformal Anomalies in Hydrodynamics    [PDF]

Christopher Eling, Yaron Oz, Stefan Theisen, Shimon Yankielowicz
We study the effect of conformal anomalies on the hydrodynamic description of conformal field theories in four spacetime dimensions. We consider equilibrium curved backgrounds characterized by a time-like Killing vector and construct a local low energy effective action that captures the conformal anomalies. Using as a special background the Rindler spacetime we derive a formula for the effect of the anomaly on the hydrodynamic pressure.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3170

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