Published July 24, 2008 | Version v1
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Shear viscosity of CFT plasma at finite coupling

Creators

  • 1. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 (Canada)
  • 2. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7 (Canada)

Description

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

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2008.05.072

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2008.05.072;
arXiv
arXiv:0804.3161v2;
PII
S0370-2693(08)00732-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
665
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 298-304
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40047022
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GRAVITATION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; STRING MODELS; STRING THEORY
Descriptors DEC
COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; M-THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUARK MODEL

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.