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Shear viscosity of boost invariant plasma at finite coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We discuss string theory alpha' corrections in the dual description of the expanding boost invariant N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma at strong coupling. We compute finite 't Hooft coupling corrections to the shear viscosity and find that it disagrees with the equilibrium correlation function computations. We comment on the possible source of the discrepancy.

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@article{arxiv.0801.4421,
  title  = {Shear viscosity of boost invariant plasma at finite coupling},
  author = {Alex Buchel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.4421},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

33 pages, no figures; v2: references added, typos corrected