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A Holographic Dual of Bjorken Flow

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-02-09 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We propose a consistent setup for a holographic dual of Bjorken flow of strongly coupled large-Nc N=4 SYM-theory plasma. We employ Eddington-Finkelstein type coordinates for the dual geometry, and we propose a late-time expansion there. We construct the dual geometry order by order, and we show that the transport coefficients are determined by the regularity of the geometry. We also show that the dual geometry has an apparent horizon hence an event horizon, which covers the singularity at the origin. We prove that the dual geometry is regular at all orders under an appropriate choice of the transport coefficients. Our model is a concrete well-defined example of time-dependent AdS/CFT.

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@article{arxiv.0807.3797,
  title  = {A Holographic Dual of Bjorken Flow},
  author = {Shunichiro Kinoshita and Shinji Mukohyama and Shin Nakamura and Kin-ya Oda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3797},
  year   = {2009}
}

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50 pages. v2: typos corrected, a reference added

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