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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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:2715fc0d-1f2f-41e9-afd9-45b9ad3301bb2022-03-26T12:04:42ZCoupling constant dependence of the shear viscosity in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theoryJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:2715fc0d-1f2f-41e9-afd9-45b9ad3301bbEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2005Buchel, ALiu, JStarinets, AGauge 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. |
| spellingShingle | Buchel, A Liu, J Starinets, A Coupling constant dependence of the shear viscosity in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory |
| title | Coupling constant dependence of the shear viscosity in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory |
| title_full | Coupling constant dependence of the shear viscosity in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory |
| title_fullStr | Coupling constant dependence of the shear viscosity in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coupling constant dependence of the shear viscosity in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory |
| title_short | Coupling constant dependence of the shear viscosity in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory |
| title_sort | coupling constant dependence of the shear viscosity in n 4 supersymmetric yang mills theory |
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