Hydrodynamics of strongly coupled non-conformal fluids from gauge/gravity duality.

Springer, Greggory Todd
2009-08
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Hydrodynamics of strongly coupled non-conformal fluids from gauge/gravity duality.

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The subject of relativistic hydrodynamics is explored using the tools of gauge/gravity duality. A brief literature review of AdS/CFT and gauge/gravity duality is presented first. This is followed by a pedagogical introduction to the use of these methods in determining hydrodynamic dispersion relations, w(q), of perturbations in a strongly coupled fluid. Shear and sound mode perturbations are examined in a special class of gravity duals: those where the matter supporting the metric is scalar in nature. Analytical solutions (to order q4 and q3 respectively) for the shear and sound mode dispersion relations are presented for a subset of these backgrounds. The work presented here is based on previous publications by the same author [1], [2], and [3], though some previously unpublished results are also included. In particular, the subleading term in the shear mode dispersion relation is analyzed using the AdS/CFT correspondence without any reference to the black hole membrane paradigm.

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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2009. Major: Physics. Advisor: Joseph I. Kapusta. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 109 pages, appendices A-B.

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