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Derivation of transient relativistic fluid dynamics from the Boltzmann equation

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In this work we present a general derivation of relativistic fluid dynamics from the Boltzmann equation using the method of moments. The main difference between our approach and the traditional 14-moment approximation is that we will not close the fluid-dynamical equations of motion by truncating the expansion of the distribution function. Instead, we keep all terms in the moment expansion. The reduction of the degrees of freedom is done by identifying the microscopic time scales of the Boltzmann equation and considering only the slowest ones. In addition, the equations of motion for the dissipative quantities are truncated according to a systematic power-counting scheme in Knudsen and inverse Reynolds number. We conclude that the equations of motion can be closed in terms of only 14 dynamical variables, as long as we only keep terms of second order in Knudsen and/or inverse Reynolds number. We show that, even though the equations of motion are closed in terms of these 14 fields, the transport coefficients carry information about all the moments of the distribution function. In this way, we can show that the particle-diffusion and shear-viscosity coefficients agree with the values given by the Chapman-Enskog expansion.

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2026 5 2025 2

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All-order fluctuating hydrodynamics of the SYK lattice

hep-th · 2026-04-20 · conditional · novelty 8.0

Derives the all-order fluctuating hydrodynamics effective action and transport coefficients for the SYK lattice from its microscopic pseudo-Goldstone boson action.

Validity of relativistic hydrodynamics beyond local equilibrium

nucl-th · 2025-08-24 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Formal solutions of Boltzmann moment equations demonstrate that relativistic hydrodynamics works far from equilibrium because non-perturbative modes and modified transport coefficients enable interpolation between free streaming and hydrodynamic regimes.

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