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

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 707, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 56-68

  Buchel, Alex ^a,b   Liu, James T ^c   Starinets, Andrei O ^d  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Thermal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344271189     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.11.055     Document Type: Article

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