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Holography and colliding gravitational shock waves in asymptotically AdS_5 spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-02-02 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Using holography, we study the collision of planar shock waves in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This requires the numerical solution of a dual gravitational initial value problem in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.1011.3562,
  title  = {Holography and colliding gravitational shock waves in asymptotically AdS_5 spacetime},
  author = {Paul M. Chesler and Laurence G. Yaffe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3562},
  year   = {2011}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures