Fluid dynamics on ultrastatic spacetimes and dual black holes

Abstract

We show that the classification of shearless and incompressible stationary fluid flows on ultrastatic manifolds is equivalent to classifying the isometries of the spatial sections. For a flow on R x S${}^2$ this leaves only one possibility, since on the 2-sphere all Killing fields are conjugate to each other, and it is well-known that the gravity dual of such a (conformal) fluid is the spherical KNAdS${}_4$ black hole. On the other hand, in R x H${}^2$ the situation is more complicated, since the isometry group of H${}^2$ admits elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic elements. One might thus ask what the gravity duals of the flows corresponding to these three different cases are. Answering this question is one of the scopes of this paper. In particular we identify the black hole dual to a fluid that is purely translating on the hyperbolic plane. Although this lies within the Carter-Plebanski (CP) class, it has never been studied in the literature before, and represents thus in principle a new black hole solution in AdS${}_4$. For a rigidly rotating fluid in R x H${}^2$ (holographically dual to the hyperbolic KNAdS${}_4$ solution), there is a certain radius where the velocity reaches the speed of light, and thus the fluid can cover only the region within this radius. Quite remarkably, it turns out that the boundary of the hyperbolic KNAdS${}_4$ black hole is conformal to exactly that part of R x H${}^2$ in which the fluid velocity does not exceed the speed of light. We extend these results to establish a precise mapping between possible flows on ultrastatic spacetimes (with constant curvature spatial sections) and the parameter space of the CP solution. Finally, we show that the alternative description of the hyperbolic KNAdS${}_4$ black hole in terms of fluid mechanics on R x S${}^2$ or on flat space is dynamical and consists of a contracting or expanding vortex.

arXiv comment43 pages, many figures. v2: Final version to appear in JHEP

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