Hydrostatic Newton-Cartan Membranes

Abstract: We construct the most general equilibrium partition function for Newton-Cartan membranes of codimension-1 defined on a flat ambient Newton-Cartan spacetime at second order in the hydrodynamic derivative expansion. We find the equilibrium constraints and the corresponding set of equilibrium constitutive relations. We show the explicit form of the Young-Laplace equation for a subset of non-vanishing and non-constant transport coefficients in the presence of a rotating fluid background with a constant vorticity.