Probe branes, time-dependent couplings and thermalization in AdS/CFT

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Das, Sumit R ^a,b   Nishioka, Tatsuma ^a   Takayanagi, Tadashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Thermal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954984179     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2010)071     Document Type: Article

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