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High Energy Physics - Theory, hep-th
Abstract:
We study the effect of conformal anomalies on the hydrodynamic description of
conformal field theories in even spacetime dimensions. We consider equilibrium
curved backgrounds characterized by a time-like Killing vector and construct a
local low energy effective action that captures the conformal anomalies. Using
as a special background the Rindler spacetime we derive a formula for the
anomaly effect on the hydrodynamic pressure. We find that this anomalous effect
is only due to the Euler central charge.