Universal holographic hydrodynamics at finite coupling

2008/08/31 by Alex Buchel, Robert C. Myers, Miguel F. Paulos +1 · 10 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-lat #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2008.10.003

published as Phys.Lett.B669:364-370,2008 · 9 pages. v2: Comparison with lattice data added

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Abstract

We consider thermal plasmas in a large class of superconformal gauge theories described by a holographic dual geometry of the form AdS₅× M₅. 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 1/N_c. 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.

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