Universality of the shear viscosity in supergravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-07-18 v1
Abstract
Kovtun, Son and Starinets proposed a bound on the shear viscosity of any fluid in terms of its entropy density. We argue that this bound is always saturated for gauge theories at large 't Hooft coupling, which admit holographically dual supergravity description.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0311175,
title = {Universality of the shear viscosity in supergravity},
author = {Alex Buchel and James T. Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0311175},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
14 pages, Latex