Relativistic Hydrodynamics a brief review of classical and quantum fluids in relativistic astrophysics
Abstract
The objective of this work is to revisit fundamental aspects of relativistic hydrodynamics, aiming at the construction of a first course in relativistic hydrodynamics and its applications to astrophysics at the level of end of undergraduate course and beginning of graduate course. We aim to introduce more basic concepts of basic hydrodynamics, going through models analogous to gravity to the theory of superfluids, applying mainly to astrophysics and the cosmology of the dark universe. We review the classical hydrodynamics, Galileo symmetry and its extension to Lorentz Symmetry applied to fluids, enabling the analogy of fluids with space-time. We study the conservation of the momentum-energy tensor and the energy conditions of Hawking-Ellis. In the next sections we investigate quantum effects, in particular linked to superfluids, and we also sketch an application to dark matter. In this study, we conclude that superfluidity is one of the possible ways to quantize gravity.
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