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Shear viscosity of a highly excited string and the black hole membrane paradigm

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-02-25 v2

Abstract

Black hole membrane paradigm states that a certain viscous membrane seems to be sitting on a stretched horizon of a black hole from the viewpoint of a distant observer. We show that the shear viscosity of the fictitious membrane can be reproduced by a highly excited string covering the stretched horizon except for a numerical coefficient.

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@article{arxiv.1010.5380,
  title  = {Shear viscosity of a highly excited string and the black hole membrane paradigm},
  author = {Yuya Sasai and Ali Zahabi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.5380},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

22 pages, no figure, minor corrections