 Canonical vorticity of a relativistic fluid

The canonical vorticity two-form is ${\omega }_{ab}={\nabla }_a(ϵu_b)-{\nabla }_b(ϵu_a)$, with specific enthalpy per particle $ϵ$. Potential flow $ϵu_a={\nabla }_a\chi$ has $\omega =0$ for a torsion-free connection. Contracting this identity with $u^a$ yields $ϵu^a{\nabla }_a{u}_b={\nabla }_bϵ-u_b{u}^a{\nabla }_aϵ$, the isentropic relativistic Euler equation in signature $(+---)$. This canonical condition does not mean the unweighted four-velocity one-form is closed.