Viscous plasma evolution from gravity using AdS/CFT
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We analyze the AdS/CFT dual geometry of an expanding boost-invariant plasma. We show that the requirement of nonsingularity of the dual geometry for leading and subasymptotic times predicts, without any further assumptions about gauge theory dynamics, hydrodynamic expansion of the plasma with viscosity coefficient exactly matching the one obtained earlier in the static case by Policastro, Son and Starinets.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0610144,
title = {Viscous plasma evolution from gravity using AdS/CFT},
author = {Romuald A. Janik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0610144},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
5 pages, no figures; v2: title changed in journal, version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett