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 . 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 . 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
9 pages. v2: Comparison with lattice data added