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The Fluid Manifesto: Schwinger Keldysh and the emergence of fluid dynamics
Mathematical Physics Seminar| Speaker: | Ramalingam Loganayagam, Princeton |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Thu, Oct 22 2015, 3:10PM |
In this talk, I focus on the question of how relativistic fluid dynamics should be thought of as a Wilsonian effective field theory emerging from Schwinger-Keldysh path integrals. Taking the basic principles of Schwinger-Keldysh formalism seriously, we are led to a series of remarkable statements and a broad programme relating relativistic fluid dynamics and topological sigma models.