Universality of the hydrodynamic limit in AdS/CFT and the membrane paradigm

We show that at the level of linear response the low-frequency limit of a strongly coupled field theory at finite temperature is determined by the horizon geometry of its gravity dual, i.e., by the “membrane paradigm” fluid of classical black hole mechanics. Thus, generic boundary theory transport c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Iqbal, Nabil, Liu, Hong
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52548
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4911-3183