| Speaker: | Shiraz Minwalla (Tata Institute) |
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| Title: | The Fluid Gravity Correspondence |
| Date (JST): | Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Place: | Lecture Hall |
| Abstract: | I demonstrate that a class of solutions to Einstein's equations with a negative cosmological constant in $d+1$ dimensions are in one to one correspondence with solutions of the equations of hydrodynamics (relativistic generalizations of the Navier Stokes equations) in $d$ dimensions. This construction relates the classic area increase theorem of black hole physics to the existence of a positive divergence entropy current in hydrodynamics. The `fluid gravity correspondence has proved useful; it has led the discovery of new, previously overlooked terms in the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics for charged fluids and superfluids, and has spurred an effort to better understand the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics as an effective field theory. |
| Seminar Video: | [VIDEO] |
