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arxiv: 0805.2683 · v1 · submitted 2008-05-17 · ✦ hep-th

Resolving disagreement for eta/s in a CFT plasma at finite coupling

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The ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density in a strongly coupled CFT plasma can be computed using the AdS/CFT correspondence either from equilibrium correlation functions or from the Janik-Peschanski dual of the boost invariant plasma expansion. We point out that the previously found disagreement for eta/s at finite t' Hooft coupling is resolved once the incoming-wave boundary condition for metric fluctuations at the horizon of the dual geometry is properly imposed.

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