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Shear Viscosity from the Effective Coupling of Gravitons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-08-23 v3

Abstract

We review the progress in the holographic calculation of shear viscosity for strongly coupled field theories. We focus on the calculation of shear viscosity from the effective coupling of transverse gravitons and present some explicit examples.

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@article{arxiv.1006.0539,
  title  = {Shear Viscosity from the Effective Coupling of Gravitons},
  author = {Rong-Gen Cai and Zhang-Yu Nie and Ya-Wen Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.0539},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

10 pages, invited presentation for the 9th Asia-Pacific International Conference On Gravitation And Astrophysics (ICGA 9), June 28-July 2, 2009, Wuhan, China; for the proceedings to be published by World Scientific