Carrollian Origins of Bjorken Flow
Arjun Bagchi🇮🇳 · Kedar S. Kolekar🇮🇳 · Ashish Shukla🇫🇷
Bjorken flow is among the simplest models of fluids moving near the speed of light () while Carroll symmetry arises as a contraction of Poincaré group when . We show that Bjorken flow and its phenomenological approximations are completely captured by Carrollian fluids. Carrollian symmetries arise on generic null surfaces and a fluid moving at is restricted to such a surface, thereby naturally inheriting the symmetries. Carrollian hydrodynamics is thus not exotic, but rather ubiquitous, and provides a concrete framework for fluids moving at or near the speed of light.