arXiv · 2606.01429
Pseudo-Gauge Stabilizers and Fibration Structure of the Cooper--Frye Map at Freeze-Out
Abstract
We study the pseudo-gauge transformation (PGT) freedom at freeze-out in relativistic spin hydrodynamics. The Cooper--Frye map is shown to factor through the quotient of freeze-out data by a universal stabilizer, yielding a stratified fibration over the space of thermodynamic Lagrange multipliers. This classifies observables into base and fiber types, bounds the number of independent PGT-sensitive observables by the family-restricted fiber dimension, and implies cross-observable consistency relations. Applied to heavy-ion polarization data, the fibration structure provides a structural interpretation of the tension between $\Lambda$ polarization and $\phi$-meson spin alignment as evidence that the vorticity-dominated response sector may need to be enlarged with local field-correlation data. We show that Weyl-anomaly-induced currents studied recently are classified as base observables and recover the known Belinfante--canonical obstruction $\Omega_{ab}\neq\varpi_{ab}$ from the stabilizer condition.
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Jiahua Tian. 2026-05-31. Pseudo-Gauge Stabilizers and Fibration Structure of the Cooper--Frye Map at Freeze-Out. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01429
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