Coupling constant dependence of the shear viscosity in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

Gauge theory-gravity duality predicts that the shear viscosity of N = 4 supersymmetric SU(N c) Yang-Mills plasma at temperature T in the limit of large N c and large 't Hooft coupling g YM2N c is independent of the coupling...

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Հիմնական հեղինակներ: Buchel, A, Liu, J, Starinets, A
Ձևաչափ: Journal article
Լեզու:English
Հրապարակվել է: 2005
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Ամփոփում:Gauge theory-gravity duality predicts that the shear viscosity of N = 4 supersymmetric SU(N c) Yang-Mills plasma at temperature T in the limit of large N c and large 't Hooft coupling g YM2N c is independent of the coupling and equals to πN c2T 3 /8. In this paper, we compute the leading correction to the shear viscosity in inverse powers of 't Hooft coupling using the α′-corrected low-energy effective action of type IIB string theory. We also find the correction to the ratio of shear viscosity to the volume entropy density (equal to 1/4π in the limit of infinite coupling). The correction to 1/4π scales as (g YM2N c) -3/2 with a positive coefficient. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.