Date: November 5

Time: 17:30 IST (UTC + 5:30)

Speaker: Marios Petropoulos (CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau)

Title: Gauges, holographic fluids and hydrodynamic frames

  • Abstract: Fluid/gravity correspondence relates relativistic fluids with asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes. Although relativistic fluid dynamics is said to be hydrodynamic-frame invariant, such a freedom is only local and breaks down when global properties are considered. This phenomenon is revealed in the dual gravitational picture of the fluids, because the choice of boundary hydrodynamic frame translates in the sort of gauge used in the bulk, which in turn affects the asymptotic symmetries. The associated surface charges obey different algebras, which encode the hydrodynamic frame. This property is exhibited in three dimensions, where Einstein spacetimes are locally anti de Sitter. It survives the flat limit, which is mapped in the boundary to an ultra-relativistic fluid. It furthermore seems to persist in higher dimensions and sheds new light on the interplay between gauges and asymptotic symmetries. Based on 1812.04019, 2006.10082, 2006.10083 and work in progress.

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