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Universal holographic hydrodynamics at finite coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider thermal plasmas in a large class of superconformal gauge theories described by a holographic dual geometry of the form AdS5×M5AdS_5\times M_5. In particular, we demonstrate that all of the thermodynamic properties and hydrodynamic transport parameters for a large class of superconformal gauge theories exhibit a certain universality to leading order in the inverse 't Hooft coupling and 1/Nc1/N_c. In particular, we show that independent of the compactification geometry, the leading corrections are derived from the same five-dimensional effective supergravity action supplemented by a term quartic in the five-dimensional Weyl tensor.

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@article{arxiv.0808.1837,
  title  = {Universal holographic hydrodynamics at finite coupling},
  author = {Alex Buchel and Robert C. Myers and Miguel F. Paulos and Aninda Sinha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1837},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages. v2: Comparison with lattice data added

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