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Second order hydrodynamics of a CFT plasma from boost invariant expansion

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-01-14 v2

Abstract

We compute finite coupling correction to a nonlinear second order hydrodynamic coefficient in the boost invariant expansion of the N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma. The result is universal for a large class of strongly coupled four dimensional conformal gauge theories.

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@article{arxiv.0808.1601,
  title  = {Second order hydrodynamics of a CFT plasma from boost invariant expansion},
  author = {Alex Buchel and Miguel Paulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1601},
  year   = {2009}
}

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34 pages; v2: new section on alternative computational framework added, same result

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