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Shear viscosity of CFT plasma at finite coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We present evidence for the universality of the shear viscosity of conformal gauge theory plasmas beyond infinite coupling. We comment of subtleties of computing the shear viscosity in effective models of gauge/gravity correspondence rather than in string theory.

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@article{arxiv.0804.3161,
  title  = {Shear viscosity of CFT plasma at finite coupling},
  author = {Alex Buchel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3161},
  year   = {2008}
}

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14 pages, v2: PLB version

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