Holography and Colliding Gravitational Shock Waves in Asymptotically AdS(5) Spacetime

Using holography, we study the collision of planar shock waves in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This requires the numerical solution of a dual gravitational initial value problem in asymptotically anti–de Sitter spacetime.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chesler, Paul Michael, Yaffe, Laurence
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62838