Effect of curvature squared corrections in AdS on the viscosity of the dual gauge theory

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Kats, Yevgeny ^a   Petrov, Pavel ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 N expansion; AdS CFT correspondence; Black holes in string theory; Thermal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649141313     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/044     Document Type: Article

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