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Hydrodynamics of Sakai-Sugimoto model in the quenched approximation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We study transport properties of the finite temperature Sakai-Sugimoto model. The model represents a holographic dual to 4+1 dimensional supersymmetric SU(N_c) gauge theory compactified on a circle with anti-periodic boundary conditions for fermions, coupled to N_f left-handed quarks and N_f right-handed quarks localized at different points on the compact circle. We analytically compute the speed of sound and the sound wave attenuation in the quenched approximation. Since confinement/deconfinement (and the chiral symmetry restoration) phase transitions are first order in this model, we do not see any signature of these phase transitions in the transport properties.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0605076,
  title  = {Hydrodynamics of Sakai-Sugimoto model in the quenched approximation},
  author = {Paolo Benincasa and Alex Buchel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0605076},
  year   = {2008}
}

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15 pages, latex