An Inflow Mechanism for Hydrodynamic Entropy

Understand

We argue that entropy production in hydrodynamics can be understood via a superspace inflow mechanism.

• Our arguments are based on a recently developed formalism for constructing effective actions for Schwinger-Keldysh observables in quantum field theories.
• The formalism explicitly incorporates microscopic unitarity and the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger thermal periodicity conditions, by recasting them in terms of topological BRST symmetries of the effective action.