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Holographic Bjorken Flow at Large-D

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-02-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We use gauge/gravity duality to study the dynamics of strongly coupled gauge theories undergoing boost invariant expansion in an arbitrary number of space-time dimensions (D). By keeping the scale of the late-time energy density fixed, we explore the infinite-D limit and study the first few corrections to this expansion. In agreement with other studies, we find that the large-D dynamics are controlled by hydrodynamics and we use our computation to constrain the leading large-D dependence of a certain combination of transport coefficients up to 6-th order in gradients. Going beyond late time physics, we discuss how non-hydrodynamic modes appear in the large-D expansion in the form of a trans-series in D, identical to the non-perturbative contributions to the gradient expansion. We discuss the consequence of this trans-series in the non-convergence of the large-D expansion.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1810.02314,
  title  = {Holographic Bjorken Flow at Large-D},
  author = {Jorge Casalderrey-Solana and Christopher P. Herzog and Ben Meiring},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02314},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

38 pages, 3 figures. v2: Typos corrected, references added

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