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Shear Viscosity from Gauss-Bonnet Gravity with a Dilaton Coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-03-24 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We calculate the shear viscosity of field theories with gravity duals of Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a non-trivial dilaton using AdS/CFT. We find that the dilaton filed has a non-trivial contribution to the ratio of shear viscosity over entropy density and after imposing causal constraint for the boundary field theory, the new lower bound 4/25π4/25\pi, obtained from pure Gauss-Bonnet gravity, may have a small violation.

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@article{arxiv.0901.1421,
  title  = {Shear Viscosity from Gauss-Bonnet Gravity with a Dilaton Coupling},
  author = {Rong-Gen Cai and Zhang-Yu Nie and Nobuyoshi Ohta and Ya-Wen Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.1421},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, no figures, version to appear in PRD

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