Causality and the speed of sound

DOI10.1007/S10714-007-0479-2MaRDI QIDQ2454848zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors George F. R. Ellis, Roy Maartens, Malcolm A. H. MacCallum

Publication date 22 October 2007

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0703121

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55)

Abstract: A usual causal requirement on a viable theory of matter is that the speed of sound be at most the speed of light. In view of various recent papers querying this limit, the question is revisited here. We point to various issues confronting theories that violate the usual constraint.

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