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Consistent holographic description of boost-invariant plasma

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-02-26 v2

Abstract

Prior attempts to construct the gravity dual of boost-invariant flow of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills gauge theory plasma suffered from apparent curvature singularities in the late time expansion. This Letter shows how these problems can be resolved by a different choice of expansion parameter. The calculations presented correctly reproduce the plasma energy-momentum tensor within the framework of second order viscous hydrodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.0805.3774,
  title  = {Consistent holographic description of boost-invariant plasma},
  author = {Michal P. Heller and R. Loganayagam and Michal Spalinski and Piotr Surowka and Samuel E. Vazquez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.3774},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Title changed; the coordinate transformation between FG and EF coordinates elucidated; version published in PRL

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