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Hydrodynamics of N=6 Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories at Strong Coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-02-16 v3

Abstract

Using the duality conjecture between N=6 supersymmetric U(N)_k \times U(N)_{-k} Chern-Simons theory and M-theory on AdS_4 \times S^7/Z_{k}, we calculate the corrections to the shear viscosity of the field theory at temperature T. At strong 't Hooft coupling and at small k level, we have considered one-loop correction to the M-theory effective action. At large k level, we have considered the alpha' correction to the type IIA effective action. In both cases the correction to the ratio of shear viscosity to the entropy density is positive.

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@article{arxiv.0808.0411,
  title  = {Hydrodynamics of N=6 Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories at Strong Coupling},
  author = {Mohammad R. Garousi and Ahmad Ghodsi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0411},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages, latex file. v3: The final version, to appear in NPB