Relativistic elasticity of stationary fluid branes

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Fluid mechanics can be formulated on dynamical surfaces of arbitrary codimension embedded in a background space-time. This has been the main object of study of the blackfold approach in which the emphasis has primarily been on stationary fluid configurations. Motivated by this approach we show under certain conditions that a given stationary fluid configuration living on a dynamical surface of vanishing thickness and satisfying locally the first law of thermodynamics will behave like an elastic brane when the surface is subject to small deformations. These results, which are independent of the number of space-time dimensions and of the fluid arising from a gravitational dual, reveal the (electro)elastic character of (charged) black branes when considering extrinsic perturbations.
Original languageEnglish
JournalPhysical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Volume87
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)044058
Number of pages13
ISSN1550-7998
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Feb 2013

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