Foundational aspects of relativistic hydrodynamics

Europe/Rome
meeting room (ECT* - Villa Tambosi - Trento)

meeting room

ECT* - Villa Tambosi - Trento

Strada delle Tabarelle, 286 38123 - Villazzano (TN) Italy
Guy Moore - Ohio State University (Technische Universität Darmstadt), Michal Heller - MPI für Gravitationsphysik (MPI für Gravitationsphysik), Ulrich Heinz - Technische Universität Darmstadt (Ohio State University)
Description

Foundational aspects of relativistic hydrodynamics

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Main Topics:

  • Transitions to hydrodynamics and thermalization at strong and weak coupling
  • (non)convergence of Chapman-Enskog and hydrodynamic gradient expansions
  • Hydrodynamic attractors
  •  non-equilibrium hydrodynamics, in particular for small collision systems
  • Fluctuations and long-time tails
  • Analytic structure of hydrodynamic correlation functions at strong and weak coupling
  • Extended theories of relativistic hydrodynamics (anisotropic and transient hydrodynamics)

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