Relativistic viscous hydrodynamics, conformal invariance, and holography

We consider second-order viscous hydrodynamics in conformal field theories at finite temperature. We show that conformal invariance imposes powerful constraints on the form of the second-order corrections. By matching to the AdS/CFT calculations of correlators, and to recent results for Bjorken flow...

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Main Authors: Baier, R, Romatschke, P, Son, D, Starinets, A, Stephanov, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008