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Baryon number conservation and enforced electric charge neutrality for bulk viscosity in quark matter

Hui Dong, Nan Su, Qun Wang

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0702104

Abstract

General constraints on fluid velocity divergences for particles in quark matter are derived from baryon number conservation and enforced electric charge neutrality. A new oscillation pattern in three-flavor normal quark matter satisfying these conditions is found and its bulk viscosity is calculated. The result may have astrophysical implication for maximum rotation frequencies of compact stars.

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