Giuseppe Policastro et al JHEP09(2002)043 doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2002/09/043
From AdS/CFT correspondence to hydrodynamics
Giuseppe Policastro1, Dam T. Son2 and Andrei O. Starinets2
Show affiliationsWe compute the correlation functions of R-charge currents and components of the stress-energy tensor in the strongly coupled large-N finite-temperature 
= 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, following a recently formulated minkowskian AdS/CFT prescription. We observe that in the long-distance, low-frequency limit, such correlators have the form dictated by hydrodynamics. We deduce from the calculations the R-charge diffusion constant and the shear viscosity. The value for the latter is in agreement with an earlier calculation based on the Kubo formula and absorption by black branes.
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11.25.Hf Conformal field theory, algebraic structures
11.10.Wx Finite-temperature field theory
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Issue 09 (September 2002)
Received 31 May 2002, accepted for publication 19 September 2002
Published 1 October 2002
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