Shear viscosity of CFT plasma at finite coupling

2008/04/30 by Alex Buchel · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2008.05.072

published as Phys.Lett.B665:298-304,2008 · 14 pages, v2: PLB version

arxiv created 2008/05/29 · openalex publication_date 2008/06/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

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.

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