Violation of the holographic bulk viscosity bound

2011/10/01 by Alex Buchel · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.85.066004

17 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2011/10/01 · arxiv updated 2015/03/19

Abstract

Motivated by gauge theory/string theory correspondence, a lower bound on the bulk viscosity of strongly coupled gauge theory plasma was proposed in arXiv:0708.3459. We consider strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma compactified on a two-manifold of constant curvature beta. We show that the effective (1+1)-dimensional hydrodynamic description of the system is governed by the bulk viscosity violating the bound of arXiv:0708.3459, once beta<0.

Citations

• Bulk viscosity of gauge theory plasma at strong coupling

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