Consistent Holographic Description of Boost-Invariant Plasma

2008/05/31 by Michal P. Heller, Michał P. Heller, Piotr Surówka +6 · 51 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Curvature #Exact solutions in general relativity #Gauge theory #Geometry #Gravitation #Gravitational singularity #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Holography #Invariant (physics) #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Physics #Plasma #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Quark–gluon plasma #Stress–energy tensor #Tensor (intrinsic definition) #Theoretical physics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.102.041601

published in Physical Review Letters 102(4), 041601 (American Physical Society) · Title changed; the coordinate transformation between FG and EF coordinates elucidated; version published in PRL

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Abstract

Prior attempts to construct the gravity dual of boost-invariant flow of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills gauge theory plasma suffered from apparent curvature singularities in the late-time expansion. This Letter shows how these problems can be resolved by a different choice of expansion parameter. The calculations presented correctly reproduce the plasma energy-momentum tensor within the framework of second-order viscous hydrodynamics.

Citations

• Asymptotic perfect fluid dynamics as a consequence of AdS/CFT correspondence
• Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics from Gravity
• Higher derivative corrections to locally black brane metrics
• A holographic dual of hydrodynamics
• The Large-N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity
• The large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity

Cited by

• Dissipative Bjorken hydrodynamics from an AdS Schwarzschild black hole
• Dynamics of the chiral phase transition from AdS/CFT duality
• Hydrodynamic Gradient Expansion in Gauge Theory Plasmas

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• Universal holographic hydrodynamics at finite coupling
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