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Can we make sense of dissipation without causality?
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Relativity opens the door to a counter-intuitive fact: a state can be stable to perturbations in one frame of reference, and unstable in another one. For this reason, the job of testing the stability of states that are not Lorentz-invariant can be very cumbersome. We show that two observers can disagree on whether a state is stable or unstable only if the perturbations can exit the light-cone. Furthermore, we show that, if a perturbation exits the light-cone, and its intensity changes with time, due to dissipation, then there are always two observers that disagree on the stability of the state. Hence, ''stability'' is a Lorentz-invariant property of dissipative theories if and only if the principle of causality is respected. We present 14 applications to physical problems from all areas of relativistic physics, ranging from theory to simulation.
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