Session FF: Mini-Symposium: Viscosity, String Theory and Hydrodynamics
8:30 AM–10:30 AM, Saturday, October 25, 2008
Room: Simmons Ballroom 4
Chair: W.A. Zajc, Columbia University
Abstract ID: BAPS.2008.DNP.FF.2
Abstract: FF.00002 : Shear Transport Coefficients from Gauge/Gravity Correspondence
9:06 AM–9:18 AM
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Authors:
Joseph Kapusta
(University of Minnesota)
Todd Springer
(University of Minnesota)
We study the shear mode in the gauge/gravity correspondence at finite temperature. First, we confirm the general formula for the shear viscosity in an arbitrary background metric which includes a black hole in the fifth dimension. We then derive a general formula for the shear mode relaxation time which appears in the theory of relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics; it agrees with known expressions in the limit of conformal fields. These results may be useful in relativistic viscous fluid descriptions of high energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC.
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